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RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART
The Historian's Eye: Essays on Italian Art in Honor of Andrew
Ladis
Between September 7 and 9, 2006, 25 scholars of Italian Renaissance art gathered at the Georgia Museum of Art to honor Andrew Ladis, Franklin Professor of Art History at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Sponsored by the museum, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts and the President’s Venture Fund, the conference represented the fulfillment of more than 10 years of similar gatherings in Athens that Ladis had helped to organize. The scholars and audience that came to Athens in September 2006 had all participated in one or another of these earlier events. They gathered to honor Ladis’s scholarship and to celebrate his generosity, his enthusiasm, and his joy at sharing art history with others. The Historian’s Eye: Essays on Italian Art in Honor of Andrew Ladis comprises many of the papers presented at that conference, from scholars including Paul Barolsky, Norman E. Land, Perri Lee Roberts and the editors of this volume, Hayden B.J. Maginnis and Shelley E. Zuraw. Subjects addressed range from maps of Rome to chalices and guild regulations, the history of the Madonna delle Grazie motif in Renaissance Naples and the echoes of the Divine Comedy in the murals of the Chiostro Verde. The book concludes with a collection of tributes to Ladis by his former students and his academic bibliography. More than the usual compilation of essays resulting from a conference, The Historian’s Eye is a true festschrift and a worthy tribute to Ladis as scholar and teacher.
258 pp.; Illustrated (black and white). Published: 2009; $40.00
ISBN-10: 0-915977-69-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-915977-69-7
The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art
This book, produced in conjunction with a traveling exhibition, offers a wealth of original research into many rarely seen and unpublished works by such famed artists as Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Jacopo Palma il Giovane, Parmigianino, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Pietro Testa, and Giambattista Tiepolo. The entries, by Robert Randolf Coleman and Babette Bohn, draw on a wide range of primary source material and include a sensitive discussion of both artist and object, accompanied by color illustrations and numerous comparative examples. In addition, the lively introduction by Giancarlo Fiorenza, former Pierre Daura Curator of European Art at the Georgia Museum of Art, outlines the theory and practice of disegno (drawing) in artists' workshops and academies.
160 pp.; Illustrated (color). Published: 2008; $38.00
ISBN-10: 0-915977-62-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-915977-62-8
Michelangelo and the Finger of God
Focusing on Michelangelo's art and biography, Michelangelo and the Finger of God investigates the artist's persona in relation to Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Bible. Insisting that the distinction between the real Michelangelo, who is more than the sum of the facts, and the Michelangelo of myth is a false distinction--indeed, a distortion--Barolsky shows how the biography of the artist was shape by the very works he carved and painted. (Excerpt from bookjacket).
Author: Paul Barolsky
84 pp; Illustrated. Published: 2003; $12.00
ISBN: 0-915977-49-4
Drawing in Renaissance and Baroque Siena: 16th- and 17th-Century Drawings from Sienese Collections
Exhibition dates: October 12-December 6, 2002
Author: Marco Ciampolini
360 pp. Illustrated; Published: 2002; $50.00
ISBN: 0-915977-45-1
Visions of Holiness: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Italy
This volume of 13 essays is a contribution toward a new comprehensive understanding of art and devotion that encompasses a body of evidence drawn from social and religious history. It takes us back to late medieval and Renaissance Italy, when painted images rose to an entirely novel prominence. It is a collection of studies that examine relations between images, the faithful, and the faith, and in so doing offer glimpses of ideas and beliefs that were to have a long history. In sum, this volume provides an introduction to an important and expanding field of historical scholarship and directs the reader to a wealth of relevant sources. The contributors have provided fascinating discussions that work together to enhance our understanding of what were "visions of holiness."
Edited by: Andrew Ladis and Shlley E. Zuraw; introduction by Henk van Os
Essays by Hayden B.J. Maginnis, Victor M. Schimdt, Janet G. Smith, Fabio Bisogni, James G. Czarnecki, Shelley E. Zuraw, Gail E. Solberg, Robert W. Gaston, Andrew Ladis, Rolf Bagemihl, Paul Barolsky, Jeryldene M. Wood, Raffaele Argenziano
254 p.; Illustrated; Published: 2001; $35
ISBN: 0-915977-40-0
Duccio di Buoninsegna: The Documents and Early Sources
Duccio di Buoninsegna, one of the greatest of the early Italian painters, was the father of the Sienese school. This volume draws together all the contemporary documentation concerning his life and works, all notices of the painter in Sienese chronicles, and both published and unpublished secondary sources to the middle of the 19th century. Concluding with a rich bibliography, this book will become the foundation for further scholarship and a means for teaching students to handle original documentary notices.
General editor: William U. Eiland
Author: Jane Satkowski; edited by Hayden B. J. Maginnis
234 p.; no illustrations; Published: 2000; $25
ISBN: 0-915977-38-9
Masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture from the Palazzo Venezia, Rome
Twenty-two sculptures from the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, Italy, were brought to the Georgia Museum of Art for their first exhibition in the United States in 1997. Marble, terra-cotta, and bronze sculptures from the 15thto the 17th centuries were featured, including four reliefs by Mino da Fiesole depicting the life of St. Jerome, originally from Santa Maria Maggiore, one of the four principal basilicas in Rome, and Bernini's terra-cotta model for one of the angels on the Ponte Sant'Angelo. The catalogue includes an essay on the history of the Museum at the Palazzo Venezia, a catalogue of the exhibition, and a bibliography.
Exhibition dates: October 5-November 24, 1996
General Editor: Shelley Zuraw
Essays by Claudio Strinati; Maria Letizia Casanova; Maria Giulia Barberini; Shelley Zuraw
Catalogue entries: Shelley Zuraw; Maria Giulia Barberini; Pietro Cannata
90 p.; Illustrated (includes 24 color plates); Essays: 4; Published: 1996; $25.00
ISBN: 0-915977-29-x
The Draftsman's Art: Works on Paper from the Horne Foundation
This catalogue was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Artists and Artisans of Florence: Works on Paper from the Horne Museum and consists of essays produced by undergraduate and graduate students participating in an Italian Renaissance seminar at the University of Georgia. The catalogue includes reproductions of the works in the exhibition, accompanied by the students' analytical essays.
Exhibition dates: September 16-November 22, 1992
General Editor: Andrew Ladis
Essays by Undergraduate and graduate students participating in Italian Renaissance seminar
39 p.; Illustrated; Essays: 23; Published: 1992; $7.00
Venetian Paintings of the Renaissance
Conceived as a teaching exhibition for students and the public alike, the exhibition brought together 15th- and 16th-century paintings that either foreshadowed or echoed Titian's rise to ultimate prominence. The exhibition featured works by such masters as Jacopo Robusti, Cima da Conegliano, Marco Basaiti, and Giovanni Bellini. The publication includes a description and history of Venetian paintings and painters, background information on the Renaissance period, and a catalogue of the exhibited works.
Exhibition dates: March 31-June 17, 1990
General Editor: Andrew Ladis
Essay by Bruce Cole
44 p.; Illustrated (with 10 color plates); Essays: 1 (with 10 student essays); Published: 1991; $12.50
ISBN: 0-915977-08-7