... Thinking Ugliness in Italian Renaissance Art: From Disharmony to Beautiful Ugliness
Italian Renaissance art has long been exclusively seen as the quest for beauty and harmony. Drawing from seminal research ...
... of space, including the particular case of the sacred space, the present paper aims at examining the strategic “perspectival” implications of the radical interpretation of the Renaissance alleged “discovery” ...
Viktor Vlasov
Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
In the age “after postmodernism” studies of post-Renaissance art go beyond the traditional history and are governed by the rules of the ...
... and epistemological underpinnings of the concept of historical otherness that is an essential condition for the construction of the “Renaissance” as an epoch-making, aesthetic and artistic category. On the ...
Anatolii Rykov
Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
The conception of the Renaissance in Russian and Western art studies was to the large extent creation of Modernist discourse. From ...
... and opened “the pragmatics of the Modern History — the era N. Khrushchev”.
Soviet architects managed to achieve in a five-year period (1950–1955) what people of the Italian Renaissance attained in two ...
Lada Balashova
University of Essex, United Kingdom
The problems of the Renaissance in modern English culture have attracted the attention of researchers quite recently. However, Italian Renaissance ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... young artists declared passeism and stylization. Renaissance art was one of the sources that shaped the “style” of such artists as D. Zhilinskyi, T. Nazarenko, O. Filatchev, etc.
However, the vision ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
Svetlana Gracheva
Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, Russia
Since the foundation of the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts, its education system has been mainly based on the study of the Renaissance ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... till November 1926. The opinions varied from the definition of AKhRR as “Russian painting Renaissance” to regarding it as an extreme “artistic conservatism”.
Consideration of the exhibition gradually ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... the constructivists and the futurists’ ideas about perspective in painting with his own understanding of the theories of perspective developed during the Renaissance, in order to create a new theory of monumental ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
Andrey Nikolskiy
State Institute of Art Studies, Moscow, Russia
The report focuses on the antique and Renaissance themes in the national monumental painting of the 1900–1910s, the subject ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... comprehended it in the context of the iconographic evolution: from the neo-empire style to the revival of “taste of Italian architects” of the Renaissance. Construction in Moscow is only a partial subject ...
... aspects of Biedermeier style.
It was long ago pointed out that the Enlightenment, despite its didactic character, was a sort of a continuation of the ideas of the Renaissance at a new level. The ideal ...
Tatiana Litvin
Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Many antique decorative motifs of porcelain crockery of Russian classicism were adopted from Western Renaissance dishes (majolica, ...
Ekaterina Tyukhmeneva
Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of Russian Academy of Arts, Russia
The article by Jeremia Isayevich Ioffe (1891–1947) entiled “The Russian Renaissance” was ...
Anastasiia Yarmosh
Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Special aspects of the development of artistic and cultural environment of the second half of the 19th century in Sweden stemmed ...
... created at the end of the Italian Renaissance in the workshop of Great Duke of Medici and by its followers from German states in the time of the Baroque style.
Again the interest to this very expensive, ...
... or logs and blocks. At the end of the 19th century there was a true “renaissance” of this building material, which can be explained by the appeal to people’s roots and national traditions, and the speed ...
... (1856–1918) and the art of the Renaissance. Artistic practice of the outstanding Swiss master had obvious humanist and anthropocentric focus. A deep interest in the achievements of the Renaissance had ...