This text offers important works from the greatest masters of 16th century painting, including: Raphael, Bruegel, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Titian, El Greco, and Veronese.
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The present volume brings together some of the most important paintings of the 16th century. They offer insights into long-gone worlds, into the sphere of the rich and powerful and into the daily lives of peasants and craftsmen. They uncover the stories and myths which preoccupied them, and their religious and material desires. Thus Raphael speaks in a vast fresco of the political miracles which people hoped for from the Pope; Holbein portrays the lavishness of the diplomatic lifestyle; Hans Baldung Grien shows the misery of growing old; the Swiss artist Niklaus Manuel celebrates Confederate mercenaries; Pieter Bruegel the Elder gives us a wedding feast in a barn; El Greco demonstrates, in THE BURIAL OF COUNT ORGAZ, that the kingdom of heaven is just as real as the earthly realm. No less rooted in the earthly sphere were the highly personal motives which lay behind the commissioning of these masterpieces of European art.The authors discuss each picture not just as a work of art, but as a document of its day. The present volime represents a selection of articles originally published under the title "What Great Paintings Say" in ART magazine.
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In 1399 the City of Frankfurt ordered an madman who had run raked though the streets to be removed from the city and deposited further down the river Main. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Middle Ages, John Frederick, Niklaus Manuel, John the Baptist, Milky Way, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Tower of Babel, Peasant Wedding Feast, Albrecht Altdorfer, George Gower, The Ship of Fools, Adam Elsheimer, Emperor Rudolf, Hans Holbein, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Santo Tome, The Burial of Count Orgaz, Anne Boleyn, Armada Portrait of Elizabeth, Council of Trent, Gonzalo Ruiz, Lucas Cranach the Younger, Paolo Veronese, Venus of Urbino, Castel Sant'Angelo New!
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In 1399 the City of Frankfurt ordered an madman who had run raked though the streets to be removed from the city and deposited further down the river Main. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
present painting, stag hunt Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, John Frederick, Niklaus Manuel, John the Baptist, Milky Way, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Tower of Babel, Peasant Wedding Feast, Albrecht Altdorfer, George Gower, The Ship of Fools, Adam Elsheimer, Emperor Rudolf, Hans Holbein, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Santo Tome, The Burial of Count Orgaz, Anne Boleyn, Armada Portrait of Elizabeth, Council of Trent, Gonzalo Ruiz, Lucas Cranach the Younger, Paolo Veronese, Venus of Urbino, Castel Sant'Angelo New!
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- The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant on page 5, page 15, and Back Matter
- Holy Bible by New International Version in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Birth of Venus by BOTTICELLI on page 74
- Don Quixote (English Picture Readers) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra on page 157
- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 178
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