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The following brief sketches are presented in fear and in hope--in

fear lest they prove in no wise adequate for so glorious a subject; in

the hope that they may encourage not only the pupil, but the teacher, to study the lives and the works of the great artists and to make every possible effort to have copies of masterpieces ever before them to study and to love. ... Read more

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From ancient Greece to Renaissance Italy to the Modern period, the classical ideal, with its elusive goal of perfecting nature, has held a tenacious grip on Western culture. Nowhere has its hold on the artistic imagination been more pervasive than in France between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The art and life of Raphael formed the bedrock of the classical tradition in French art, yet no comprehensive study of Raphael's impact on the art theory, criticism, and practice of classicism exists. This book fills that gap. Transcending limited notions of artistic influence, the book demonstrates that Raphael had as much impact as a symbol as he did as a paradigm of the classical tradition.Focusing on French art and theory from the classical to the Romantic era, Raphael and France is part of the ongoing revision of views of that period which has been taking place for the last twenty years. The book demonstrates that the shifts from classical to Rococo to neoclassical aesthetics were not as abrupt or as all-encompassing as has been assumed. By tracing the continuity and transformation of the classical ideal, with Raphael's art and image as central paradigms, Rosenberg achieves a broader, more accurate, and comprehensive view of French artistic developments during this period.Rosenberg draws on careful readings of primary sources, including the correspondence and lectures of the French Academy, some of which are unpublished; most of the major theoretical treatises by French and foreign authors; and contemporary criticism and works of art. In the process, he strikes a methodological balance between traditional art-historical approaches and insights provided by more contemporary approaches, such as semiotics and poststructuralism. As the notion of isolated genius as the prime force in art has given way to a broader, more contextual view of art and history, interest in past traditions once regarded as outmoded or dead has grown tremendously. This book makes a timely contribution to this widening area of inquiry. ... Read more

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Presents a biography of Raphael ... Read more

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Great
I bought all of the books in this series for our homeschool art curriculum.They are easy to read and a fun supplement that can lead to a nice trip to the Smithsonian Gallery of Art.

Awesome book
I love the history and my son loves the cartoon captions that are spread throughout the book.

A wonderful introduction to Raphael's art!
The book Raphael, by Mike Venezia, tells the story of the life of the Renaissance painter Raphael.This book shows some of the many paintings Raphael did throughout his life.The pictures in the book are in color and look very lifelike, so that you can see even the smallest details of his paintings.The author also tells the meanings behind some of the paintings and tells why Raphael painted them.His art was special because it shows movement and makes the people he painted look very lifelike.

This book tells about Raphael's life and what he did.Raphael was born in Urbino, Italy in 1483, and learned a lot about art from his father, who was a painter.When Raphael was older, he was apprenticed under one of the greatest artists in Italy, but soon his paintings became as good as his teacher's.

After that he painted many paintings on his own, and learned from two of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.He became very famous, and even became the pope's favorite painter.He died on his 37th birthday, leaving behind all his magnificent paintings.

I really enjoyed learning about Raphael's paintings, especially the Sistine Madonna and The School of Athens.I like the way the author added the cartoon pictures to the book, because it made the book more enjoyable to read.The author also did a good job of explaining about Raphael in a way that was easy to understand.I would recommend this book for kids of all ages.Even my five-year-old sister liked it! ... Read more

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Joseph Raphael holds an honored place in the annals of California art. Includes 73 pages of art work ... Read more

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Joseph Raphael
Great book for students, collectors, dealers and art historians interested in this important artist. As one of America's foremost buyers of Joseph Raphael paintings, I highly recommend this book. www.LawrenceBeebe.com ... Read more

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All of Raphael's most important paintings as well as a significant number of his drawings and engravings are reproduced, principally in color, in this splendid new tribute to one of the most admired artists of the Italian Renaissance.

In this lavishly illustrated book featuring some 300 illustrations, the author takes a fresh, critical look at the life and work of Rafaello Sanzio, or, as he signed certain paintings, Raphael Urbinas--in homage to his native city of Urbino. Described as "an artist touched by grace," Raphael is considered along with Michelangelo and Leonardo to be one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance.

Raphael (1483-1520), whose birth and death were on a Good Friday, belonged to a family of merchants; aside from his training in the studio of Perugino, little is known about his earliest years. He arrived in Florence in 1504, where he studied the masters: Masaccio, Ghirlandaio, Leonardo and produced magnificent paintings of the Madonna as well as remarkable portraits; in 1508 he went to Rome, where he died a dozen years later at the height of his powers, after creating monumental works at the Vatican. At thirty years of age, he was, in the eyes of his contemporaries, a living legend. In his Lives of the Artists, Vasari wrote: " While we may term other works paintings, those of Raphael are living things, the flesh palpitates, the breath comes and goes, every organ lives, life pulsates everywhere."

In a fascinating text De Vecchi reexamines each of the major periods of Raphael's short career dispelling the myths about him that have accumulated over the centuries. He reminds us that the most "profound" element of Raphael's art was his striving to express in his work the dialectic between earthly and heavenly love, which was an important concern of his contemporaries The coverage of the text extends beyond the paintings to Raphael's significant work as an architect and designer of interiors. The reference material in the Appendix includes a chronology and a bibliography.

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THE BEST RAPHAEL BOOK YOU"LL EVER NEED TO OWN
I bought this marvellous book through Amazon nearly 8 years ago and in all that time not one review! What's gone wrong? Surely ART is still taught in schools and there's still interest in beauty - especially feminine beauty?If this is so it's inevitable students will eventually discover the highest standards of Art, Architecture and Portraiture were established in a 100 year period in one small town ( Florence) and this era was called "The Renaissance".

From there on it's a matter of deciding which of the Big 3 artists was the greatest natural born genius. After getting all excited about the size of the Sistine ceiling and finding Leonardo only created about 10 paintings it doesn't take long to discover Raphael wins by a street. From the beginning to the very early end of his life everything that flowed from his paintbrush has an unbelievable level of perfection. Too perfect it seems for those looking for angst and naked emotion speaking to them from a canvas.(In every large art gallery the largest crowd is always gathered around a Van Gogh)

Raphael's images on the other hand look so simple and uncomplicated. The reverse is true - what you see is the Art of disguising Art. Until much later in his career it never occured to him to create tortuous compositions using extreme movement and dramatic lighting.Just one continuous series of beautiful life-affirming renditions of the kind of subject matter his patrons commissioned.The lucky part being Madonnas were in such great demand he needed to find endless variations of the "Madonna and Child" theme.In the first part of this book you get just about all of them perfectly reproduced in a large format. And what makes this Raphael book better than any other is wherever possible the Italian author inserts all Raphael's preparatory sketches.

It's here the truth about what makes an artist GREAT emerges.The Florentines were all fantastic draftsmen. If the end product looks easy it's because all the hard work was done earlier - trying out every alternative solution until the final image is established.As Raphael's fame spread demand for his genius came from all sides and it was never in doubt he'd end up in the Vatican where his rivalry with Michaelangelo came to the surface.Very few art experts disagree that by sticking by his own convictions harmony was prefable to discord his contibution to the "Stanza della Segnatura" is one of the great landmarks in humanist art.Again this book reproduces every panel at large scale together with all the drawing Raphael considered necessary to make this room his masterpeice.

The rest, as they say is history.This book contains over 300 large very accurate illustrations nearly all in colour.You'll never find a better monograph devoted to the Prince of all Painters. ... Read more

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This book examines one of the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance and the artist's best known work. Commissioned by Pope Julius II to decorate the walls of his private library, Raphael's fresco 'School of Athens' represents the gathering of the philosophers of the ancient world around the central figures of Plato and Aristotle. Presented in this volume is the early criticism of the fresco, by Bellori and Wolfflin, along with new interpretations, published in this volume for the first time, of its iconography in relation to the other frescoes in the Stanza and in the context of the humanism and rhetorical tradition of the papal court; analysis of Raphael's groundbreaking use of light and color; and an inquiry into the role of Bramante and antique architecture in Raphael's design. ... Read more

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This section of the Corpus Rubenianum is concerned with Rubens's remarkable study of Italian sixteenth-century art as shown through his numerous copies and adaptations. Rubens's study of the Cinquecento lasted throughout his life and was not just the focus of his early years in Antwerp when he learned his craft. At that time he used secondary copies as models for pen drawings or as a basis for enlarged painted adaptations such as his famous version in Dresden after Michelangelo's Leda. Rubens's most important full-size painted copies, however, were made as late as 1628-30 when he had travelled to Madrid and London and was in his fifties, a point when many artists would have thought they no longer needed to study. He may have made these copies because he could not buy the originals for his collection, but the act of creating such detailed visual records shows how attentive he was to the art of the past. This process culminated in his large and very free adaptations of the 1630s, now in Stockholm, after Titian's Andrians and Worship of Venus , which are among the most famous copies in the history of art. Rubens made relatively few drawings from paintings while in Italy between 1600 and 1608, although some survive after frescoes by Pordenone that he saw in Treviso and there are also a number that record Michelangelo's paintings in the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Most of the catalogue entries, however, discuss the Italian copy drawings that Rubens bought during his travels and brought home to Antwerp. It will be argued that these sheets were taken out and retouched by him throughout his career. In total, this material amounts to one of the largest collections of graphic art assembled by a late Renaissance painter, and as a result it reveals Rubens's sophisticated and complex dialogue with Italian art. ... Read more

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Great Artists, Vol 1. - Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Jennie Ellis Keysor is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Jennie Ellis Keysor then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington in 1880 in 159 pages; Subjects: Art / General; Art / History / General; Art / European; Art / History / Renaissance; Art / Individual Artist; History / General; ... Read more

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Chapters: Raphael, Diego Velázquez, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Holbein the Younger, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, Joseph Severn, Thomas Gainsborough, Augustus John, Sofonisba Anguissola, Alessandro Allori, Joshua Reynolds, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Cecilia Beaux, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Lawrence, Angelica Kauffmann, Henry Raeburn Dobson, Rembrandt, Catherine De' Medici's Patronage of the Arts, John Singleton Copley, John Michael Wright, Adolfo Müller-Ury, Anthony Van Dyck, Fernando Amorsolo, Portraits of Shakespeare, Nicholas Hilliard, Peter Tillemans, Philip de László, Reginald Gray, Gilbert Stuart, Alexis Simon Belle, John de Critz, Rembrandt Peale, Jerry Ross, Joseph Wright of Derby, George Hayter, Antonis Mor, Bronzino, Juliet Thompson, Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Pietro Annigoni, Samuel Bookatz, Guido Reni, Georgy Shishkin, William Homer Leavitt, Antonello Da Messina, Robert Henri, Maarten Van Heemskerck, Chuck Close, John Collier, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Gwen John, Henry Fuseli, Maurice Boitel, Francis Bicknell Carpenter, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Bettina Shaw-Lawrence, Jan Wyck, Francesco Hayez, David Lenz, Corneliu Baba, Eileen Hogan, Ellen Sharples, Zsuzsa Szikra, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, John Partridge, Henriette Lorimier, Valentin Serov, Zachary Selig, Frank O. Salisbury, Jørgen Roed, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Allan Ramsay, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Hans Eworth, David D. Stern, Fabian de La Rosa, Jacquemart de Hesdin, Moses Wight, Maggi Hambling, Branwell Brontë, George Henry Harlow, Jean Tabaud, Albert Anker, Alice Neel, Frederik Vermehren, James Sharples, Bartholomeus Van Der Helst, A. G. Heaton, John Baptist Medina, Sarah Miriam Peale, Robert Walter Weir, Henry Howard, Francis Dennis Ramsay, Giancarlo Vitali, Edmund C. Tarbell, Rolinda Sharples, George Romney, Marvin Hayes, Vera Stanley Alder, Joachim Von Sandrart, C. F. Goldie, Brenda Pye, Frederic Porter Vinton, Tadeusz Pruszkowski, Natalie Holland, Thomas Sully, Ben Lo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=48321 ... Read more