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Art of the Ottomans 1450-1600

Nature and Abstraction: A Glimpse Beyond the Sublime Porte

Sagep Editori , Genova 2022, 216 pagine, brossura, 24 x 30 cm, English,  ISBN  9788863738674

euro 40,00

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Il catalogo propone un percorso visivo e culturale che racconta l'epoca d'oro dell'arte ottomana attraverso 5 materiali: tappeti, tessuti, ceramiche, metalli e arti del libro, per un totale di circa 70 oggetti, alcuni dei quali già noti al mondo accademico, altri poco conosciuti e in gran parte inediti. Il catalogo illustrato ospita saggi introduttivi e schede di tutte le opere. Le opere appartengono per la maggior parte a collezioni private italiane e straniere, integrate da una selezione di prestiti da istituzioni museali che ospitano alcune tra le più importanti raccolte di arte ottomana fuori dalla Turchia: il Museo Nazionale del Bargello e il Museo Stibbert a Firenze e in Europa il Museo di Arte Islamica di Berlino (Pergamonmusem / Museum für Islamische Kunst Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz) e il Museo della Ceramica di Sèvres (Cité de la céramique - Sèvres & Limoges).

13/11/22

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was born and flourished in Florence, Italy at the height of the Renaissance. Considered the epitome of the Renaissance man, da Vinci was a renown painter, mathematician, scientist and inventor on top of possessing a myriad of other skills and qualities. His talents helped foster the growth of the Renaissance as well as brought cultural and artistic value to Florence's influence. His early life gave him the chance to develop his skills through apprenticeships. With the help of Lorenzo de Medici, da Vinci found work in Florence after trouble with the law. He was then sent to Milan where he worked for 17 years, during which he produced the famed The Last Supper among other paintings. He was forced flee to Venice during the Second Italian War, where he traded in his paint brush for a T-square as Cesare Borgia's chief military engineer and architect. The last 20 years of his life, da Vinci shuffled from city to city until he finally ended up in France under the service of Francis I. He died in his manor house near the king's palace. Da Vinci's other famous works include The Vitruvian Man and what is arguably the most recognized painting in history, The Mona Lisa. His inventions far surpassed the technology of his time, and although most were not feasibly constructable during the Renaissance, it took centuries for the rest of the world to match his ideas and concepts as we know them today.

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Lorenzo de Medici (1449-1492) was an Italian statesman and patron of the arts. His family owned the Medici bank, which helped put Florence on the map of commerce and brought great wealth to the city.  Lorenzo was responsible for poor investments that resulted in the loss of a lot of the family's monetary reputation, but through his diplomacy, he was able to keep the city in a state of fragile peace with the Vatican and surrounding territories. As a poet himself, Lorenzo used his power to promote Renaissance artists such as da Vinci and Michelangelo. He supported cultural enrichment and also helped expand his grandfather's (Cosimo de Medici) library; this emphasized that the powerful family was not just mercantile in nature, but also intellectual and academic (this may explain the hair cut a la Severus Snape). With Lorenzo died the Golden Age of Florentine history as the Renaissance's epicenter shifted to Rome.

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