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books that can be read online or printed on artists
or categories related to 'art.
This book discusses and cites several authors such as Giorgio Morandi in Bologna
there are also images.
is in English.
painting book
history of ancient painting designs in Italian.
early Italian painting
book about the color in the painting, probably the 'online entry is for the purpose of popularizing' Association.
insert it anyway.
paint color
book in English on 'important sculptor Giambologna (Douai 1529-Florence 1608)
sculptor of Flemish origin, but it worked a lot in Italy and especially
in Florence where they were created and exhibited several sculptures.
in Bologna, Giambologna created the famous Fountain of Neptune in Piazza Maggiore.
He was then commissioned by the Papal States to create a statue to be placed in the courtyard of 'Archiginnasio.
'S work was not finished yet. but there remained the bronze model present at the Civic Museum of Bologna.
Text sculptor Giambologna
famous sculptor Antonio Canova's thousand seven thousand eight hundred greatest exponent of neoclassicism, greatly inspired by 'ancient Greece, he worked mainly in Rome, but also on behalf of the' Emperor Napoleon.
The text is in English.
Antonio Canova
a well-known books by Giorgio Vasari (Lives of the Most Excellent Painters,
Italian architects and sculptors from Cimabue up to our times).
Giorgio Vasari was a great painter and architect Tuscany (Arezzo 1511 - Florence 1574).
Besides being a skillful painter was the 'architect of Cosimo de Medici (he was the' inventor of the Uffizi in Florence, the Medici and renovation of buildings tant 'otherwise).
Besides being a painter and architect, was also a great historian 's art.
And he wrote several texts that remain the cornerstones in the history of 'Italian art.
Vasari was in Bologna for the friendship and cooperation that bound him to Aspertini.
Vasari created several works "paintings" for the curia then also donated to the National Art Gallery of Bologna.
In the gallery you can 'see important paintings by Vasari as "The Supper of St. Gregory the Great (1539)" and "Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1540)".
Unfortunately, the language is not identical to that of today. (there is still some minor differences)
Giorgio Vasari
treated very art of painting dated 1776
Di Charles Alphonse Dufresnoy
Ancient Book Painting
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