Hellmut wohl biography sampler

  • Francisco de Hollanda, Translated by Alice Sedgwick Wohl, with introductory essays by Joaquim Oliveira Caetano and Charles Hope and notes by Hellmut Wohl.
  • Complete with many previously unpublished photographs, this first biography of the great and versatile 20th-century engineer.
  • The book contains the biographies of many important Italian artists, including a sketch of Vasari's autobiography, and is also adopted as a sort.

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    The Life of Bernini

    Introduction

    Maarten Delbeke, Evonne Levy, and Steven F. Ostrow

    Barely two years after the death of the sculptor, architect, and painter Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), the Florentine writer and connoisseur Filippo Baldinucci published the Vita del cavaliere Gio. Lorenzo Bernino scultore, architetto, e pittore (Florence, 1682). For more than six decades Bernini had been central to the artistic life of Rome, not only as the prolific creator—individually and through his workshop—of an astounding array of works, but also as the artist who most profoundly and successfully shaped the public appearance of the Roman papacy. The prompt publication of Baldinucci’s biography established Bernini as an artist in whom one found the exceptional conjunction of a life, an oeuvre, and a society. Alongside the works that Bernini left us, mostly in Rome, Baldinucci’s biography assured Bernini of a lasting presence in the consciousness of art hist

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    The Age of the Baroque in Portugal

    The eighteenth century was a true golden age for the visual arts in Portugal. The discovery of fabulous deposits of gold, diamonds, and emeralds in Brazil suddenly made Portugal’s court the wealthiest in all of Europe, enabling patronage of the arts on a lavish scale. This handsome volume fryst vatten the first major work in English to be devoted to this period of Portuguese art and history.

    Written by historians such as Kenneth Maxwell and specialists in art and architectural history such as Hellmut Wohl and Jennifer Montagu, the book tells the story of this unique age—its politics, society, and history. Focusing on the reigns of King João V, who ruled from 1706 to 1750, and King José I, who ruled from 1750 to 1777, the book reproduces and discusses more than one hundred works of art—including paintings, architecture, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, silver, jewelry, and textiles—that illustrate the extraordinary quality of Portuguese artistic production

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    On Antique Painting

    Francisco de Hollanda completed Da pintura antiguain 1548, eight years after the young Portuguese humanist, painter, and architect had spent two years in Italy. Book I is the first Portuguese treatise on the theory and practice of painting. In contrast to Italian texts on artistic theory, which define painting as the imitation of nature, Hollanda’s treatise, influenced by Neoplatonism, develops a theory of the painter as an original creator guided by divine inspiration. Book II, “Dialogues in Rome,” is a record of three conversations with Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, and members of their circle and a fourth with Giulio Clovio. It is the most informative and intimate intellectual portrait of Michelangelo before the biographies by Vasari and Condivi.

    “As the only English translation of this significant Renaissance treatise, On Antique Painting marks a contribution not only to the field of Portuguese literature but also to the study