The Invention of Infinity

The Invention of Infinity
Title The Invention of Infinity PDF eBook
Author Judith Veronica Field
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 264
Release 1997
Genre Art
ISBN 0198523947

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Fully illustrated, this story brings together the histories of arts and mathematics and shows how infinity at last acquired a precise mathematical meaning.




The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective

The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective
Title The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective PDF eBook
Author Samuel Y. Edgerton
Publisher
Pages 232
Release 2008-11-01
Genre Art
ISBN 9781597405089

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Florence and Baghdad

Florence and Baghdad
Title Florence and Baghdad PDF eBook
Author Hans Belting
Publisher Belknap Press
Pages 303
Release 2011
Genre Art
ISBN 9780674050044

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In this lavishly illustrated study, Belting deals with the double history of perspective, as a visual theory based on geometrical abstraction (in the Middle East) and as pictorial theory (in Europe). Florence and Baghdad addresses a provocative question that reaches beyond the realm of aesthetics and mathematics: What happens when Muslims and Christians look upon each other and find their way of viewing the world transformed as a result?




The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope

The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope
Title The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope PDF eBook
Author Samuel Y. Edgerton
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 222
Release 2009
Genre Art
ISBN 9780801474804

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Edgerton shows how linear perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives and ultimately undermined medieval Christian cosmology.




The Art of Renaissance Europe

The Art of Renaissance Europe
Title The Art of Renaissance Europe PDF eBook
Author Bosiljka Raditsa
Publisher Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pages 225
Release 2000
Genre Art, Renaissance
ISBN 0870999532

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Works in the Museum's collection that embody the Renaissance interest in classical learning, fame, and beautiful objects are illustrated and discussed in this resource and will help educators introduce the richness and diversity of Renaissance art to their students. Primary source texts explore the great cities and powerful personalities of the age. By studying gesture and narrative, students can work as Renaissance artists did when they created paintings and drawings. Learning about perspective, students explore the era's interest in science and mathematics. Through projects based on poetic forms of the time, students write about their responses to art. The activities and lesson plans are designed for a variety of classroom needs and can be adapted to a specific curriculum as well as used for independent study. The resource also includes a bibliography and glossary.




The Renaissance Inventors

The Renaissance Inventors
Title The Renaissance Inventors PDF eBook
Author Alicia Klepeis
Publisher Renaissance for Kids
Pages 0
Release 2018
Genre JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN 9781619306837

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Who are some of the most important inventors of the Renaissance? In The Renaissance Inventors with History Projects for Kids, readers ages 10 through 15 explore the lives of some of the best-known inventors of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries, including Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Leon Battista Alberti, Johannes Gutenberg, and Gerardus Mercator. Kids also dive into student-led STEAM activities to learn about the engineering design process and develop critical and creative thinking skills.




Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Title Luxury Arts of the Renaissance PDF eBook
Author Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher Getty Publications
Pages 292
Release 2005-10-01
Genre Art
ISBN 0892367857

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Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.