This study aims to show that by pairing images of the saints and drawing on the style and iconography of the reliefs that Lorenzo Ghiberti created for the bronze St. Zenobius shrine at Santa Maria del Fiore (1432-42),
This article proposes that the classical text, the Orphic Hymns, was the primary textual source for Botticelli's painting, which is an allegory of spring,
This large reference work was originally published in Italian, and has been translated to English and published over a period of many years, from 1959 to 1983. It contains coverage of art, such as painting, sculpture and architecture.
Boasting well over 6,000 contributors from 12 countries, the Dictionary offers its readers authoritative and comprehensive global coverage. A resource for both art and cultural studies, the Dictionary serves as a unique guide to all the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, printmaking, as well as the decorative arts.
Daring in concept and astonishing in scope, The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts is a unique reference work: a topically classified chronology of more than 30,000 artworks from circa 1300 to the 1990s that take as their theme the subjects of Greek and Roman mythology.
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