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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hieronymus Bosch, Giovanni Bellini, Ferdinand Ii of Aragon, Al-Ashraf Qansuh Al-Ghawri, Vladislas Ii of Hungary, Johannes Trithemius, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, John Iii of Navarre, Anton Pilgram, Giuliano Da Sangallo, Juan Díaz de Solís, Giuliano De' Medici, Jacob Ibn Habib, Dinis of Portugal, Jacques D'amboise, Luca Landucci, Jan Heyns, Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Serapion, Richard Mayew, John Yonge, Biagio Rossetti, Antonio Lombardo, Paskoje Miličević Mihov, Miles Salley, Li Dongyang, Kujō Masamoto, Mōri Okimoto. Excerpt:Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri (Arabic : ) was the last of the Mamluk Sultans. One of the last of the Burji dynasty , he reigned from 1501 to 1516. On the disappearance of Sultan Al-Adil Sayf ad-Din Tuman bay I , it was not till after some days that the choice of the Emirs and Mamluks fell upon Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri. As Circassian slave, he had served Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qaitbay ; was over forty before he was raised to independence as Emir of ten; and then, rapidly promoted to command of Tarsus , Aleppo and Malatia , he became Emir of a thousand, Chamberlain of the Court , and chief Vizier . At first he declined the throne; but being pressed by the Emirs, who swore faithful service, he at last consented. He was now 60 years of age; but, still firm and vigorous, soon showed the Emirs that he was not to be overruled by any of them. Consolidation of Power The reign began as usual with the removal of all Tuman bay s I adherents. As dangerous to the throne, they were laid hold of, imprisoned or exiled and their property escheated; while the opposite party were restored to freedom and raised again to power and office. Tuman bay I from his hiding-place was found to be plotting against the new Sultan; after some weeks, betrayed by his friends, he... ... Read more

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Chapters: Holy Allegory, the Feast of the Gods, Allegories, Agony in the Garden, Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan, Transfiguration of Christ, Madonna Del Prato, Presentation at the Temple, St. Francis in Ecstasy, Crucifixion. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Holy Allegory is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, dating from c. 1490 to 1500. It is in the Uffizi gallery in Florence, Italy. There is no documentation about the commission and the original location of the work, which is known to have been part of the Austrian Imperial collections in Vienna in he 18th century. In 1793 the director of the Uffizi, Luigi Lanzi, exchanged it with another work in order to improve the Venetian Renaissance presence in the museum. At the time, it was attributed to Giorgione. The Italian art historian Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle was the first to identify it as a Bellini. Today his attribution is widely recognized, although another name sometimes mentioned is that of Marco Basaiti. The scene is set on a wide terrace with a polychrome marble pavement, in perspective, separated from a lake shore by a parapet. On the left Mary is enthroned, under a baldachin whose support is in cornucopia shape, a symbol of her fertility. The baldachin has four steps, and on its side is a frieze with scenes of the myth of Marsyas, interpreted as a parallel with Jesus' Passion. Near to Mary are two unidentified female figures, which could represent two saints or two virtues. One of them looks to be floating in the air, although the effect could stem from a loss of color near her legs and feet. In the middle of the scene are four children playing with a small tree and its silver fruits, perhaps a symbol of the knowledge tree, a symbol of life and wi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26195094 ... Read more

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Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 - 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer. His most famous works are La sonnambula (1831), Norma (1831) and I puritani (1835). Known for his long flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania", Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera. Born in Catania, Sicily, Bellini was a child prodigy from a highly musical family and legend has it he could sing an aria of Valentino Fioravanti at eighteen months. He began studying music theory at two, the piano at three, and by the age of five could apparently play well. Bellini's first five pieces were composed when he was just six years old. Regardless of the veracity of these claims, it is certain that Bellini grew up in a musical household and that a career as a musician was never in doubt. Having learned from his grandfather, Bellini left provincial Catania in June 1819 to study at the conservatory in Naples, with a stipend from the municipal government of Catania. By 1822 he was in the class of the director Nicolò Zingarelli, studying the masters of the Neapolitan school and the orchestral works of Haydn and Mozart. It was the custom at the Conservatory to introduce a promising student to the public with a dramatic work: the result was Bellini's first opera Adelson e Salvini an opera semiseria that was presented at the Conservatory's theatre. Bellini's next opera, Bianca e Gernando, met with some success at the Teatro San Carlo, leading to a commission from the impresario Barbaia for an opera at La Scala. Il pirata was a resounding immediate success and began Bellini's faithful and fruitful collaboration with the librettist and poet Felice Romani, and cemented his friendship with his favored tenor Giovanni Battista Rubini, who had sung in Bianca e Gernando. Bellini's gravestone at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in ParisBellini spent the next...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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