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Der Mann mit dem Schlapphut von Frans Hals gehört zu den bekanntesten Meisterwerken der Kasseler Gemäldegalerie. Schon Lovis Corinth bekannte 1907 bei seinem Besuch: "der Franz Hals hat genau so gemalt wie ich. [...] Ich brauche mich gar nicht zu verstellen." Das Ergebnis war eine schöpferische Kopie nach dem Gemälde, welche - bei aller Unterschiedlichkeit - die Seelenverwandtschaft beider Künstler offenbart. Erstmals sind beide Werke in Schloss Wilhelmshöhe gemeinsam zu sehen. Ergänzt werden sie durch eine moderne Paraphrase von Slawomir Elsner, die vom Museumsverein Kassel e. V. erworben wurde. Auch sie belegt: Frans Hals inspiriert bis heute! Frans Hals «Der Mann mit dem Schlapphut» Lovis Corinth Slawomir Elsner

Die Goldberg-Variationen von J.S. Bach gehören zu den berühmtesten Werken der Klavier- und Cembaloliteratur. Anhand von sechs Einspielungen, unter anderem der bekannten Aufnahme von Glenn Gould aus dem Jahr 1955, wird das Werk in diesem Buch beleuchtet. Hierbei steht die praktische Interpretation des Werkes im Mittelpunkt und es wird eine relativ neue Herangehensweise an die Musik praktiziert: Die Betrachtung eines Musikwerkes anhand von dessen verschiedenen Interpretationen in Form von Tonaufnahmen. Der hermeneutische Ansatz von Hans-Georg Gadamer wird in diesem Buch praktisch umgesetzt sowie unterschiedliche Gedanken weiterer Musikdenker, -wissenschaftler und -kritiker wie u.a. Theodor W. Adorno zu Bachs Werk sowie zur musikalischen Interpretation werden vorgestellt. Nicht zuletzt auch die historische Aufführungspraxis wird thematisiert, da drei Cembaloaufnahmen (von Wanda Landowska, Gustav Leonhardt und Karl Richter) mit drei Klavieraufnahmen (von Glenn Gould, Grete Sultan und Wilhelm Kempff) miteinander verglichen werden.

An image-text dialogue between David Cronenberg's vision of the human body and wax models from a legendary Italian science museumThis book was published for an exhibition at Fondazione Prada, where the models of La Specola Museum (part of the Museum of Natural History in Florence) were exhibited alongside a newly conceived short film by Canadian film director David Cronenberg. It includes interviews with the director and an anthology of previously published texts on La Specola's collection and Cronenberg's filmography by Maria Luisa Azzaroli, Fausto Barbagli, Mario Bucci, Gianni Canova, Simone Contardi, Eleanor Crook, Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, Georges Didi-Huberman, Joanna Ebenstein, Giovanni Festa, Marcie Frank, Mauro Giori, John Hatch, Zoltan Kádár, Peter K. Knoefel, Chloe Anna Milligan, Marta Poggesi, Mario Praz, Dylan Trigg and Marcos Uzal, among others. The contributions examine the remarkable heritage and the current resonance of the wax models from historical, academic and artistic perspectives, and investigate David Cronenberg's vision of the body, to underline the relevance of scientific research and its connection to creative practice.

"Based on a vast, virtually unstudied archive in Indian languages and Persian, this book reawakens the lost voices of celebrated Indian musicians, men and women, who endured the momentous transition from Mughal to British rule. It will appeal to readers interested in Indian music, global music history, South Asian history, empire and colonialism"--

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between sound and space within these urban contexts, demonstrating how music and sound were intimately connected to changing social and political practices. The volume offers a critical redefinition of the core concept of soundscape, considering musical practices through the lenses of territory, space, representation, and identity, in five parts:Soundscape, Phonosphere, and Urban HistoryUrban Soundscapes across TimeUrban Soundscapes and Acoustic CommunitiesUrban Soundscapes in Literary SourcesReconstructing Urban Soundscapes in the Digital EraMusic, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 reframes our understanding of Italian music history beyond models of patronage, investigating how sounds and musics have contributed to the construction of human identities and communities.

"Traces the history of three massive palaces built outside Naples in the eighteenth century - at Capodimonte, Portici, and Caserta - and examines how these buildings were designed to help reshape the economic and cultural fortunes of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies"--

A complete history of Bohemian architecture during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries forms one of the most important chapters in the cultural history of Bohemia. In this period, art attained a remarkably high level, with Bohemia emerging as a rival to the other cultural centers of Europe. This was especially true in terms of architecture, which not only transformed the appearance of towns and villages in Bohemia but also played a part in the creation of the phenomenon known as the Baroque, which to this day remains an essential part of Czech cultural identity. The monumental Baroque Architecture in Bohemia brings together multiple generations of art historians from Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences to offer the single most comprehensive examination and exploration of Bohemian architecture during this extraordinary period. The book begins with the Renaissance roots of Baroque Bohemia: it introduces readers to the influence of the cultured and eccentric Rudolf II, who moved the seat of the Holy Roman Empire back to Prague, inviting foreign artists, architects, and alchemists with him; it shows the importance of Albrecht von Wallenstein, whose military success in the Thirty Years' War heralded a massive building campaign that helped usher in the Baroque age. When the book moves to the period commonly understood as the Baroque, it discusses leading Czech architects, such as Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, but also focuses on lesser-known regional architects and the important Italian architects and artists that left their mark on Bohemia. The architectural and artistic developments are all set among the broader cultural and social context of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book contains extensive pictorial documentation-most impressively Vladimír Uher and Martin Micka's gorgeous architectural photographs.

Born in Venice in 1673 to a lawyer and a lace maker, Rosalba Carriera began her career painting decorative objects and rose to international renown as a portraitist in Italy, Germany, France, and England. In 1757 she died nearly blind from cataracts, a tragic end for a painter acclaimed for exquisite miniatures and innovative pastels. During the 1700s she was deemed the most talented female artist of our century, so famous that she was referred to by her first name only. Today, however, she is little known outside Venice, despite the attribution to her of more than seven hundred surviving artworks.0This accessibly written, gorgeously illustrated biography surveys Carriera's career, considering her miniatures alongside better-known works of larger scale. Interpreting her oeuvre against the historical context of her experience as a single woman in Venice, the book takes readers through the full arc of her life, including the people she met, her clients, and her artistic approach. Author Angela Oberer's original iconographic analysis of some of Carriera's work reveals that she was an erudite painter who drew on antiquity as well as Renaissance precedents such as Leonardo da Vinci and Paolo Veronese. Published in conjunction with the 350th anniversary of her birth, this book is a long overdue tribute to an important and prolific artist.

Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665)--painter, printmaker, and teacher--was one of the most innovative and prolific artists of the Bolognese school. The daughter of a painter, she hailed from a city whose university was believed to have had educated women since the Middle Ages and that celebrated the cult of Saint Catherine of Bologna, who was known for her skill as a painter and illuminator--ideal conditions to encourage the training and patronage of skilled women artists. Drawing on extensive archival documentation and primary sources, including inventories, sale catalogues, and Sirani's work diary, this book provides an overview of the brief life, fascinating oeuvre, critical fortune, and cultural legacy of this successful Baroque artist.

Anniversary publication of the Belvedere The Belvedere in Vienna epitomizes the changes that have taken place over the course of three centuries in the concept of what constitutes a museum. Originally built by Prince Eugene of Savoy to enhance his prestige as a prince, under Maria Theresa, the Upper Belvedere became one of the world's first public museums. The idea of presenting Austrian art in an international context, which in 1903 motivated the establishment of the Modern Gallery in the Lower Belvedere, remains the key objective of this world-famous cultural institution. In this critical homage, renowned authors explore enduring questions that transcend the different epochs, such as¿: What ordering concepts are evident in art presentation¿? How contemporary were these presentations in an international context¿? What kind of public were they aimed at¿? Anniversary publication of the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere: a critical homage to a place of art with a diverse history spanning centuries Exhibition until January 7, 2024 With contributions from Johanna Aufreiter, Björn Blauensteiner, Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Christiane Erharter, Nora Fischer, Anna Frasca-Rath, Antoinette Friedenthal, Martin Fritz, Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Sabine Grabner, Katinka Gratzer-Baumgärtner, Cäcilia Henrichs, Alice Hoppe-Harnoncourt, Christian Huemer, Georg Lechner, Stefan Lehner, Gernot Mayer, Monika Mayer, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber, Georg Plattner, Matthew Rampley, Luise Reitstätter, Stella Rollig, Claudia Slanar, Franz Smola, Nora Sternfeld, Silvia Tammaro, Wolfgang Ullrich, Leonhard Weidinger, Christian Witt-Dörring, Luisa Ziaja, and Christoph Zuschlag

Fall in love with copperplate calligraphy while expanding your creative repertoire with this practical, easy-to-follow and comprehensive guide. The magic of copperplate calligraphy is that it is based on a few elementary forms and a few important rules. All you need to get started are pen, ink and suitable paper, and with practice you will soon be able to design and print your own invitations, business cards and much more. Each chapter contains one or more tutorials filled with useful tips on how to get as much out of the content as possible while having fun. Everything is explained from the very start, in detail and in a step-by-step way, so no previous knowledge is required. On the other hand, if you have some experience with calligraphy, the book will serve as a great resource for building on those skills while experimenting with copperplate calligraphy's typical flourishes and decorative elements. The author, renowned German calligrapher Stefanie Weigele, who specializes in classic pointed pen calligraphy, shares her insight about essential tools and materials as well as important dos and don'ts that help you master the methods and techniques being taught quickly and effectively. The book includes downloadable exercise sheets and grids that make it easy for you to put your newly learned skills into immediate practice.

Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting-casually at first, and then more and more obsessively-the country's great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity.Beyond the sainted Rembrandt-who harbored a startling darkness-and the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight, Moser got to know a whole galaxy of geniuses: the doomed virtuoso Carel Fabritius, the anguished wunderkind Jan Lievens, the deaf prodigy Hendrik Avercamp. And through their artwork, he got to know their country, too: from the translucent churches of Pieter Saenredam to Paulus Potter's muddy barnyards, and from Pieter de Hooch's cozy hearths to Jacob van Ruisdael's tragic trees.Year after year, as he tried to make a life for himself in the Netherlands, Moser found friends among these centuries-dead artists. And he found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions that he was. Why do we make art? What even is art, anyway-and what is an artist? What does it mean to succeed as an artist, and what does it mean to fail? Is art a consolation-or a mortal danger?The Upside-Down World is an invitation to ask these questions, and to turn them on their heads: to look, and then to look again. This is Holland and its great artists as we've never seen them before. And it's a sumptuously illustrated, highly personal coming-of-age-story, twenty years in the making: a revealing self-portrait by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.

Vermeer - The Rijksmuseum's major exhibition catalogue is a captivating book by the renowned author Gregor J. M. Weber. Published in 2023 by the prestigious publishing house, THAMES & HUDSON, this book is a must-have for art enthusiasts and history buffs. This book is a comprehensive guide to the major exhibition of Vermeer's works at the Rijksmuseum. Weber, a respected figure in the genre of art history, meticulously details each piece, providing readers with an in-depth understanding of Vermeer's artistic journey. The book is a testament to Weber's expertise and the Rijksmuseum's dedication to preserving and showcasing art. If you are passionate about art and its history, this book is a fantastic addition to your collection.

75 Jahre Henle Urtext: Mit diesem Jubiläumsband feiert der G. Henle Verlag den nachhaltigen Erfolg seiner Urtextausgaben. Für das Album wurde eine repräsentative Auswahl von 17 berühmten, viel gespielten Klavierstücken aus dem Henle-Programm zusammengestellt. Die leichten bis mittelschweren Werke sind hervorragend für Studium und Vortrag geeignet und bilden zugleich die gesamte Bandbreite klassischer Klaviermusik ab. Chronologisch angeordnet ermöglichen sie somit einen Streifzug durch die Geschichte der Klaviermusik von Bach bis Gershwin. Greifen sie zu!

"This latest volume in the Frick Diptych series focuses on Rosalba Carriera's "Man in Pilgrim's Costume." An essay by Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, is paired with a contribution from the artist Nicolas Party"--

Der Beiname "Englische Suiten" stammt - genauso wie jener der "Französischen Suiten" - nicht von Bach. Im Gegensatz zu den intimen sechs "französischen" schlagen die "englischen" Suiten einen prächtigeren Tonfall an: Jede Suite wird von einem Prélude im konzertanten Stil eröffnet; für zwei Sarabanden sind von Bach zusätzlich ausgezierte Fassungen erhalten, die den virtuos-prunkvollen Cembalostil, der ihm hier vorschwebte, eindrücklich belegen. Auch wenn wir kein autographes Quellenmaterial kennen, ist der Notentext durch mehrere zeitgenössische Abschriften außergewöhnlich gut und zuverlässig überliefert. Authentische Varianten, vor allem zur Ornamentik, werden in der revidierten Urtextausgabe von Ullrich Scheideler mustergültig untersucht, dokumentiert und für den Spieler direkt im Notentext zugänglich gemacht.