9781852854478 - the ambassadors' secret: holbein and the world of the renaissance von north, john (1 Ergebnisse)
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paperback. Zustand: Sehr gut. Edition: Revised. 462 p., illustrated; Pages yellowed due to age, otherwise the copy is in very good condition, free of annotations - Seiten altersbedingt gegilbt, sonst ist das Exemplar in einem sehr guten Zustand, frei von Anstreichungen - Contents - The painter and his worls - portrayal - Provena…nce and Date A Hidden Meaning? - Hans Holbein - Master Painter - Holbeins First Visit to England - Return to Basel - London Again - Death and Reputation - The two ambassdaors - The World of Diplomacy - Jean de Dinteville - The First London Embassy and the Kings Divorce - The Second Visit to London - Georges de Selve - After Cranmers Judgement - Further Embassies and Final Retreat - Diplomatic Catholics - Nicolaus Kratzer - Astronomy and the Liberal Arts - Wandering Scholar - Thomas More and Oxford - Kratzer and the Continent - Kratzer at Court - The Minds Construction - II - The Painting - S - Lines and Method - On Detecting Anomaly - Instruments for the heavnes - The Celestial Globe and Holbeins Viewpoints - The Globe and the Paintings Perspective - The Setting of the Celestial Globe - The Cylinder Dial - The Compound Solar Instrument - The Quadrant - The Polyhedral Dial - The Polyhedral Dial: What the Painter Saw - The Torquetum - The Mundane Level - The Terrestrial Globe and the Dividers - I he Arithmetic Book and Set-Square - The Musical Instruments - The Hymnal - The dissorted skull - The Scrots Anamorphic Portrait - Skull and Sun - Right and Left Eyes - Technique - Another Anamorph? - Apelles to an abbey Pavement - The Apelles Line - The Gloves Line - The St Michael-Rome Line - The Orb of Instruments, Solomon s Seal - and the White Strip - Hexagram and Moon - The Turkey Rug - The Abbey Pavement and the Form of the Universe - Holbeins Pavement - hints of astrology - The Horoscope Square - The Horoscopes Detail - The Hexagram and the Planets A Note on Golden Section - III. the meaning - shadow and the truth - The Place of the Skull - The Theme of Twenty-Seven - Memento Mori - touched by the ocult ? - Magic and Angels - Metaphors of Spirit - Humanism and Magic - Gematria and the Cabala - Agrippa and the Luxuriance of Occult Belief - An Alchemical Image? - On a Broken String - Rome and the Lyre - Division and the Harmony of the World - Theologies of the Cross - Colet, More and the Sun - More and the Crucifixion - Luthers Theology of the Cross - Symbols of the Millennium - Ram, Cross and Creation - Cygnus and the Cross - The Rituals of Good Friday - Fears for the Mid-Millennium - On Painters and Authors - A Shared Tradition? - Chaucer at the Court of Henry vm - The True Author - Apelles and Clio - Appendix I: Piero della Francescas Baptism of Christ - Appendix II: The Compound Solar Instrument - Appendix III: Rabanus Maurus and Solomons Throne Appendix IV: Holbein and Chaucer Compared - Appendix V: The Celestial Globe and the Northern Cross. ISBN 9781852854478 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 410.
