Alessandra Zamperini Livres

A glorious survey of the work of Paolo Veronese, one of the most prolific and successful painters of the Italian late Renaissance Veronese was born in Verona in 1528 and earned his fame in Venice. Together with Titian and Tintoretto, he is associated with some of the greatest Venetian art of the sixteenth century. Working in a dynamic Mannerist style early in his career, Veronese quickly gained a reputation for his dignified depictions of classical elegance and grandeur. Known for his enormous feast scenes, frescoes, and ceiling paintings, Veronese refined the use of color to enhance his illusionist he has been called the greatest colorist who ever lived.  In Venice, Veronese's mural and ceiling decorations for the Church of San Sebastiano, the Doge's Palace, and the Marciana Library earned him early acclaim. His later work became sought more Velázquez purchased two mythologies for the Spanish Royal Collection. His The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi are among his best-known masterpieces. This volume provides a sumptuous visual introduction to Veronese's oeuvre, with a concise and readable text that reasserts the place of one of the most cultivated and influential artists of the Renaissance. 300 illustrations

A lavish survey of the grotesque style in European painting and decoration, from Roman times to the late nineteenth century.In the fifteenth century, the ruins of Nero's Domus Aurea were discovered in Rome. The first explorers to enter the interior of this spectacular palace complex had the sensation of finding themselves in a series of grottoes, and this is why the fanciful frescoes and floor mosaics discovered there were called "grotesques."A fashionable form of ornamentation in ancient Rome, grotesques consist of loosely connected motifs, often incorporating human figures, birds, animals, and monsters, and arranged around medallions filled with painted scenes. Fifteenth-century artists such as Perugino, Signorelli, Filippino Lippi, and Mantegna copied the ancient Roman examples; the most famous use of the style was Raphael's Loggie in the Vatican Palace, which became immensely famous and influential all over Europe.This magnificently illustrated book covers the entire history of the grotesque in European art, from its Roman origins through the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. It illuminates how grotesque decoration was transformed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries into arabesque, chinoiserie, and singeries, and how it continued in the nineteenth century, leading eventually to Art Nouveau. 250 color illustrations.

Verona, grande città d'arte del Veneto, mitico luogo di incontro fra Giulietta Capuleti e Romeo Montecchi, conosciuta per il suo inestimabile patrimonio artistico d'epoca romana, non finisce di stupire lungo le pagine di questo volume, dove accanto all'Arena si scoprono i capolavori d'arte del Gotico, i grandi dipinti del Rinascimento, le chiese e gli affreschi barocchi, per arrivare al genio contemporaneo di Carlo Scarpa, autore di un magistrale e rivoluzionario intervento di restauro a Castelvecchio. L'arte e la storia della città offrono uno sfaccettato quanto splendido panorama, che si dipana, lungo i secoli, dall'età romana alla corte scaligera (punto di riferimento per Dante, Giotto e Petrarca), dal Quattrocento di Pisanello e Mantegna al Rinascimento di Sanmicheli, per gravitare nel Settecento attorno al magistero di Scipione Maffei. Il libro, con un testo in italiano e in inglese, conduce all'interno di questo articolato percorso, anche grazie a un suggestivo corredo il risultato è uno sguardo curioso che, senza scordare i tesori della provincia, le sue numerose ville e il suo incantevole paesaggio, accompagna il lettore lungo le vicende, note e meno note, di una città che dall'epoca romana ad oggi non finisce di creare e vivere d'arte.