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The secret language of the renaissance : decoding the hidden symbolism of Italian Art

Surveys the literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts of the Renaissance.

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  • "Langage secret de la Renaissance"

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  • "This book peels back layers of meaning in three distinct sections. Part One is an immersion in the culture of this period, tracing innovations in literature, painting, sculpture and the decorative arts that date to this time. Part Two offers a guide to the essential elements of symbolic language in Renaissance art, including colour, geometry, light and shade, proportion, perspective and body language. Part Three analyzes more than 40 works grouped around a dozen themes, including Mythology, War and Peace, and Death and Eternity. -- Dust Jacket."
  • "Surveys the literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts of the Renaissance."@en
  • "During the Renaissance, artists traditionally encoded meanings into symbols, some of which drew upon a traditional repertoire available to educated people in the era. These hidden messages which ranged from the esoteric to the political to the religious could be communicated in everything from the position of a hand to the placement of the sun and moon. The Secret Language of the Renaissance helps us discover them anew, as lecturer, author, and director Richard Stemp teaches you the art of reading these paintings."
  • "During the Renaissance, artists traditionally encoded meanings into symbols, some of which drew upon a traditional repertoire available to educated people in the era. These hidden messages which ranged from the esoteric to the political to the religious could be communicated in everything from the position of a hand to the placement of the sun and moon. The author, Richard Stemp, teaches you the art of reading these paintings."@en
  • ""In the mind of the Renaissance artist, meaning took shape through symbols: everything from peacocks to centaurs conveyed a message. Often these meanings drew ona traditonal symbolic vocabulary, a common language available to educated people of the time but largely lost to modern viewers. Occasionally a painter, sculptor or architect encoded a more specific meaning in a canvas or a text, a bust or a building - perhaps even an explosive political statement or an encrypted expression of heretical faith. The Secret Language of the Renaissance peels back these layers of meaning in three distinct, detailed sections. Part One is a vivid immersion in the culture of this remarkable period, tracing the profusion of innovations in literature, painting, sculpture and the decorative arts that date to this time. Part Two offers a wide-ranging guide to the essential elements of symbolic language in Renaissance art. Part Three, the heart of the book, analyzes more than 40 works grouped around a dozen themes. Each work is shown in full colour... then... each is taken apart to reveal the symbols it contains and interpret their enigmatic meaning." - dust jacket blurb."@en

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  • "The secret language of the renaissance : decoding the hidden symbolism of Italian Art"@en
  • "the Secret Language of the Renaissance: Decoding the Hidden Symbolism of Italian Art"
  • "De verborgen taal van de Renaissance : symboliek in de Italiaanse kunst van 1400-1550"
  • "The secret language of the Renaissance"
  • "The secret language of the Renaissance decoding the hidden symbolism of Italian art"@en
  • "The secret language of the Renaissance : decoding the hidden symbolism of Italian art"
  • "The secret language of the Renaissance : decoding the hidden symbolism of Italian art"@en
  • "The secret language of the Renaissance : decoding the greatest age of Italian art"
  • "The secret language of the Renaissance decoding the greatest age of Italian art"@en
  • "Le langage secret de la Renaissance : le symbolisme caché de l'art italien"

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