IdeasRoadshow, to academicchatter
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Centuries ahead of its time, Giovanni Battista Bracelli's "Bizzarie di Varie Figure" (1624) depicts figures made from a range of objects, mostly abstract — cubes, rings, squares — but also such things as rackets, screws, and braided hair.

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More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bracelli-s-bizzarie-di-varie-figure-1624/

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ChrisMayLA6, to bookstodon
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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 101

The problem with Martin Gayford's new book, Venice: City of Pictures (2023), is that its neither one thing nor another. It picks up many themes/issues from #arthistory but shies away from really developing these in detail, But,, equally there is too much #art & not enough more general discussion of #Venice the city for a recent visitor. Gayford seems unable to make up his mind what book he wanted to write & this falls between the stools

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petrnuska, to random
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#AcademicJob

Assistant Professor in the Department of #ArtHistory and #FineArts

@ The American University of #Paris

Deadline: 01/12/2023

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/155459

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ChrisMayLA6, to bookstodon
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This week(end) I've been mostly reading, no. 100.

Adelina Modesti's handsomely presented biography of Bolognese artist Elisabetta Sirani (2023), continues the reappraisal of from a feminist angle. Focussing on the works of & the social environment of C17th (which offered considerable support to ), Modesti's interesting (if occasionally a little dry) book will be of great interest to anyone seeking read an art history populated by women!
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This week I've been mainly been reading, no. 97.

There's a well known saying in that every portrait is a self-portrait (also attributed to Oscar Wilde). In Ia Genberg's The Details (2023) the narrator offers four portraits (three of former lovers, one of a parent0 which in the end reveal as much about her as those she is writing about. Its a well-crafted novella that presents a slowly emerging picture of a woman with less self-knowledge than she likely believes..

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IdeasRoadshow, to academicchatter
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A remarkable portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni (1489 - 1490) by Domenico Ghirlandaio at MuseoThyssen Bornemisza
in Madrid.

The museum has a highly-informative website with tons of details about their wonderful artworks.

Stay tuned for news about Ideas Roadshow new documentary series about the lives and accomplishments of Renaissance artists.

Website: https://ideasroadshow.com/.
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IdeasRoadshow, to medievodons
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Coming soon: a comprehensive documentary film about the life and accomplishments of RAPHAEL in a fresh, original format. This is the first film in an ongoing series of Renaissance films.

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ChrisMayLA6, to bookstodon
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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 92.

Hilary Fraser's study Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking like a Woman (2014), is a great bit of recovery. Fraser explores how in C19th wrote about & what it tells us about female creativity 150 years ago. While at times getting slightly bogged down in the detail, overall this is a compelling work of that (re)establishes forgotten female voices talking about art & artists

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ChrisMayLA6, to bookstodon
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This week I've been mainly reading no. 89.

James Elkins, What Painting Is (2000) is a strangely compelling discussion of the practice(s) of using the extended metaphor of alchemy. Elkins manages to convince you that this is an interesting way of understanding what painters do when by illustration of painterly practices & alchemic ones. Focussing on the surface of paintings, Elkins offers a idiosyncratic approach to understanding painting as process

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ChrisMayLA6, to bookstodon
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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 88.

Suzanne Valadon is not well serviced by
Catherine Hewitt's breezy biography, Renoir’s Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon (2017). It captures much of the whirl of her life & the succession of crises through which she passed, but the account of the themselves is relatively weak & without a good (other) book of reproductions to hand you'd be lost. Still if your interested in Valadon not a bad place to start


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ChrisMayLA6, to bookstodon
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who has died at 95.

As a (relative) latecomer to formalised , and as a critical , I found his book Art Worlds to be one of the most plausible & convincing analyses of the social milieu in which art is produced.;

the book dovetailed really well with my own political economic position (hence why I liked it) & helped me configure where my interests intersected.

If you've not read it, I really recommend it; great stuff

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ChrisMayLA6, to bookstodon
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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 85.

Like all good , Sheila Hale's massive (over 700 pages of text) Titian: His Life (2012) keeps on sending you back to 's works. As a social history based biography, Hale explores the social & political context the surrounds Titian as well as his life, contacts & work. But, its a compelling read (for all its length) & is only let down by the paucity of reproductions. It you're interested in Titian, this is a 'must read'!
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frontiere_s_, to medievodons French
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OPEN ACCESS | L’humanisation des hybrides mi‑hommes, mi‑bêtes en question(s). À propos de quelques monstres d’origine antique et de leur postérité au Moyen Âge
Jacqueline Leclercq-Marx

https://publications-prairial.fr/frontiere-s/index.php?id=1603

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passamezzo, to earlymodern
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