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Breaking with convention in Italian art
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ISBN: 1527500543 9781527500549 Year: 2017 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Popularized by the hit television show, the phrase "breaking bad" is defined in urban slang as someone who challenges convention, defies authority, or rejects moral and social norms. Running from 2008 to 2013 on AMC, Breaking Bad featured one of the most unforgettable characters in television history: Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher, husband, and father, who is diagnosed with terminal cancer. For five seasons, fans watched as Walter White tried to secure financial security for his family by using his chemistry skills to manufacture drugs. Throughout the series' run, Walter White was the epitome of the phrase "breaking bad", as he broke the law and continually rejected the social mores that he had dutifully followed until his cancer diagnosis.Taking its cue from Walter White, this volume explores the various ways in which artists, patrons, and art historians throughout history have broken bad by defying authority, challenging convention, or rejecting the norm. For example, artists also sometimes break away from tradition by using unconventional iconography, as is the case in Chapter Two, which investigates how Etruscan tomb reliefs show mourning rather than celebration. The book also includes a chapter in which an art historian breaks bad by challenging the conventional interpretation and date of an object, thus eschewing tradition and defying authority. In this case, Chapter Three disputes the largely accepted Hellenistic date and interpretation of the Tazza Farnese, and instead asserts that the cameo must be Roman.Spanning the art of ancient Etruria to the twentieth century, the eight chapters here explore the theme of breaking bad from a variety of time periods and artistic media, from Etruscan mirrors and Roman cameos to Baroque portraits and Italian Pop Art. Scholars approach the topic of breaking bad from a number of perspectives, including examining the artist, patronage, reception, propaganda, iconography, methodology, and use.


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Giorgio Vasari : l'homme des Médicis
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ISBN: 2246479614 Year: 1995 Publisher: Paris Grasset


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Tiepolo in Holland : works by Giambattista Tiepolo and his circle in dutch collections : tentoonstelling : Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 17 August - 20 October 1996
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ISBN: 9069181711 9789069181714 Year: 1996 Publisher: Rotterdam Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen


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Mantegna : 1431-1506 : [exposition] / [organisée par le Musée du Louvre et la Réunion des musées nationaux]
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ISBN: 9782754103107 9782350312095 9782350312248 2754103104 2350312097 Year: 2008 Publisher: Paris : Hazan : Musée du Louvre,

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Riche d’un ensemble remarquable des tableaux de Mantegna, de loin le plus important hors d’Italie, que viendront compléter des prêts exceptionnels, le musée du Louvre consacre, pour la première fois en France, une rétrospective majeure à cette figure éminente de la Renaissance en Italie du Nord. Formé dans le milieu humaniste de Padoue et de Ferrare, Mantegna va se distinguer par son goût « antiquaire », obsédé par la restitution imaginaire et documentée à la fois d’une Antiquité rêvée et par son talent d’invention allégorique et savante. A la cour de Mantoue, auprès d’Isabelle d’Este et de son mari le duc de Gonzague, il va développer, par la fresque, les peintures sur bois mais aussi par la gravure, une œuvre qui influencera au-delà des artistes de la péninsule jusqu’à Dürer. L’exposition et son catalogue s’attacheront à montrer, à travers des œuvres de techniques très diverses, les étapes majeures de la carrière de cet artiste, menée entre Padoue, Vérone et Mantoue durant la seconde moitié du XVe siècle, son influence sur ses contemporains et la diffusion précoce de son art dans toute l’Europe.


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Humanismus in Bologna 1490-1510 : Wien, Graphische Sammlung Albertina 20. Mai - 26. Juni 1988 [Ausstellung]
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ISBN: 8877790334 Year: 1988 Publisher: Bologne : Nuova alfa editoriale,


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Parmigianino e il manierismo europeo
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ISBN: 8882154815 9788882154813 Year: 2003 Publisher: Milano Silvana

Renaissance women patrons : wives and widows in Italy c. 1300-1550
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ISBN: 0719052890 9780719052897 0719052882 Year: 1998 Publisher: Manchester New York Manchester University Press


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Primatice : maître de Fontainebleau : [exposition] Paris, musée du Louvre, 22 septembre 2004 - 3 janvier 2005
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ISBN: 2711847721 9782711847723 Year: 2004

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