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A Concise History of Austria
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Beller, Steven. A Concise History of Austria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 334 pp. $75.00 hardback, $24.99 paperback.
Writing surveys is a thankless task. Research strengths often have to be summarized in a nutshell, while covering areas and periods beyond one's specialization frequently cannot reflect the complexity of current historiography on the subject. Concise histories present an even greater challenge of condensation, and a concise history of Austria is surely the greatest challenge of all because the geographic scope and meaning of "Austria" has undergone so many ...
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Andrea Mantegna. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; Andrea Mantegna's name turns up...youthful work of Mantegna's in the Chapel...good in them because Andrea had therein copied...extolled the works of Andrea." The epithet of...so, has defined Mantegna criticism down the...
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So this is what man looks like. (Andrea Mantegna, Royal Academy of Art, London, England)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...been in doubt about the success of its Mantegna exhibition, it can give a sigh of relief Andrea Mantegna is not exactly a household name, even...by the unavailability of a number of Mantegna's masterpieces: frescoes and altarpieces...
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Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1495) Andrea Mantegna National Gallery of Art, Washington
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...is no more than its setting. Andrea Mantegna's Judith with the Head of Holofernes...the detail of the foot. True, Mantegna also uses this foot device in...greatest feet in art. THE ARTIST Andrea Mantegna (1430-1506) was a Renaissance...
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Mantegna's rise from teen prodigy to master
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...International Herald Tribune 10-21-2006 Andrea Mantegna never forgot his debt to Padua...the scene of his early triumphs.Mantegna's formative years coincided with...artist international recognition.Mantegna died in September 1506. To mark...
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Mantegna's rescue
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...Master paintings remaining in private hands, Andrea Mantegna's Descent into Limbo, circa 1492, will...likely commissioned by the Gonzaga family, Mantegna's greatest patrons. Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) was the most important northern...
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Mantegna put chisel to canvas.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...Italian Early Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna exists today in very few fine impressions...one paramount characteristic of Mantegna's art that neither of these successors...stony, even flinty, hardness. Mantegna's figures seem chiseled out of...
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Craigie Aitchison on Andreas Mantegna's `The Dead Christ': MY FAVOURITE PICTURE
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...that he does? His selection of Andrea Mantegna's The Dead Christ begins an...first, the foreshortened view (Mantegna's hallmark) leading the eye...couldn't be any other way." Andrea Mantegna's `The Dead Christ' is in...
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Mantegna panel fetches 17.6m pounds
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; THE last known painting by Andrea Mantegna held in private hands fetched GBP 17.6 million at Sotheby...liberate the souls of the righteous who had predeceased him. Mantegna, one of the key artistic figures of the second half of the...
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A Mantegna sells in N.Y. for $28 million
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; 00-00-0000 The last painting by the 15th-century North Italian master Andrea Mantegna likely to come up on the open market was sold Thursday at Sotheby' s for $28,568,000. On its last auction appearance at...
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A Michelangelo discovery: Larry J. Feinberg discusses an unpublished sheet of drawings by Michelangelo that includes studies for the Sistine ceiling and a copy after a print by Mantegna.
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...case with this recently discovered, powerful drawing of the Grieving St John (Fig. 2), deftly transcribed from Andrea Mantegna's print of the Entombment (Fig. 1). (3) Michelangelo's authorship of this affecting study, although not...
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