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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Francesca Gavin
It is 1596. "Affection is false. Love is an illusion” - says the elderly Queen of England. But who is deceiving whom? In the aftermath of her sister’s elopement, sober, scholarly Frances Randolph becomes entangled with the sons of Lord Cobham, one of the queen's most powerful councillors: Henry, the indecisive heir; William, the adventurer and risk-taker; and George, the youngest and cleverest. In a whirl of parties and evening entertainments she is drawn into a new circle of acquaintances whose lives at court seem incredibly glamorous. But when overwhelming grief leads to a reckless decision, Frances embarks on a future course which leads her to question the queen’s words. In My Francesca we follow Frances as she embraces this world of pretence and deceit, where nothing is quite what it seems, where courtiers fear for their futures, and evil lurks in the darkest corners of men's souls.
Carmen-Francesca Banciu
PalmArtPress
2025
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Believed to be a modern-day Holy Virgin, a shy teen fears the changes in her life while she longs for her absent father, in a tale also told from the viewpoints of a homeless man, her scientific-minded mother, and her troubled friend. A first novel. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death, the fifteenth century Italian artist Piero della Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective painter, raising him to an artistic stature comparable with that of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. But who was Piero, and how did he become the person and artist that he was? Until now, in spite of the great interest in his work, these questions have remained largely unanswered. Piero della Francesca: Artist and Man puts that situation right, integrating the story of Piero's artistic and mathematical achievements with the full chronicle of his life for the first time. Fortified by the discovery of over one hundred previously unknown documents, most unearthed by the author himself, James R. Banker at last brings this fascinating Renaissance enigma to life. The book presents us with Piero's friends, family, and collaborators, all set against the social background of the various cities and courts in which he lived - from the Tuscan commune of Sansepolcro in which he grew up, to Renaissance Florence, Ferrara, Ancona, Rimini, Rome, Arezzo, and Urbino, and eventually back to his home town for the final years of his life. As Banker shows, the cultural contexts in which Piero lived are crucial for understanding both the man and his paintings. From early masterpieces such as the Baptism of Christ through to later, Flemish-influenced works such as the Nativity, we gain a fascinating insight into how Piero's art developed over time, alongside his growing achievements in geometry in the later decades of his life. Along the way, the book addresses some persistent myths about this apparently most elusive of artists. As well as establishing a convincing case to clear up the long controversy over the year of Piero's birth, there are also answers to some big questions about the date of some of his major works, and a persuasive new interpretation of the much-debated Flagellation of Christ. This book is for all those who wish to know about the development of Piero as man, artist, and scholar, rather than simply to see him through a series of isolated great works. What emerges is a thoroughly intriguing Renaissance individual, firmly embedded in his social milieu, but forging an historic identity through his profound artistic and mathematical achievements.
"Lavin's study of the Pierro della Francesca "Flagellation" at Urbino, as befits this exquisite masterpiece, is a model of lucid and precise exposition as well as being an exciting exercise of scholarship. Informed with the intellectual rigour of Scholastic exegesis, it deserves to be placed with the classic readings of fifteenth and sixteenth century works by Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind."—Spectator "[Lavin] leaves the picture more wondrous than before, a simultaneous triumph of the theological and biographical, as well as pictorial, imagination."—Rackstraw Downes, New York Times Book Review
The Confessions of Señora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories
Natalie L. M. Petesch
Swallow Press
2005
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"Memory, of course, is sometimes like a bucking horse, sometimes a runaway one, and one must control the reins until finally it stops, snorting with exhausted relief," writes Natalie L. M. Petesch in her haunting new collection, The Confessions of Señora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories. Petesch immerses readers in the lives of people caught up in the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War, which left more than five hundred thousand dead. She captures the hand-to-mouth existence on the streets of Madrid of two war orphans; an old soldier's memories of a fallen militiawoman; the dilemma of Franco's laundress as she seeks to duplicate a stolen religious icon she finds in his home; and a man's struggle to find his bride among thousands of Republican refugees waiting for ships to evacuate them before Franco's Fascists arrive to kill them. In the title novella, an elderly woman describes to her granddaughter how the families of Franco's officers fighting against Republican militiamen endured hunger, filth, and danger in an underground fortress. Petesch conveys the humiliating details of war through the sensibility of a cultured woman who recalls only too vividly latrines made of laundry tubs, the smell of unwashed humans, and the stench of death. Brilliant in its imaginative power and heartbreaking in its access to the bottomless well of human tears, The Confessions of Señora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories is the work of a mature artist able to convey a particular world so vividly that we know these people as our own.
The Confessions of Señora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories
Natalie L. M. Petesch
Swallow Press
2005
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"Memory, of course, is sometimes like a bucking horse, sometimes a runaway one, and one must control the reins until finally it stops, snorting with exhausted relief," writes Natalie L. M. Petesch in her haunting new collection, The Confessions of Señora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories. Petesch immerses readers in the lives of people caught up in the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War, which left more than five hundred thousand dead. She captures the hand-to-mouth existence on the streets of Madrid of two war orphans; an old soldier's memories of a fallen militiawoman; the dilemma of Franco's laundress as she seeks to duplicate a stolen religious icon she finds in his home; and a man's struggle to find his bride among thousands of Republican refugees waiting for ships to evacuate them before Franco's Fascists arrive to kill them. In the title novella, an elderly woman describes to her granddaughter how the families of Franco's officers fighting against Republican militiamen endured hunger, filth, and danger in an underground fortress. Petesch conveys the humiliating details of war through the sensibility of a cultured woman who recalls only too vividly latrines made of laundry tubs, the smell of unwashed humans, and the stench of death. Brilliant in its imaginative power and heartbreaking in its access to the bottomless well of human tears, The Confessions of Señora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories is the work of a mature artist able to convey a particular world so vividly that we know these people as our own.
This beautiful series lavishly illustrates the world's major fresco cycles from the early fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Each book also contains a comprehensive text, a biography of the artist, a bibliography, and a glossary.
Il mio nome è Francesca: Il tuo libro da colorare personale, in modo che tutti conoscano il tuo nome - Quaderno - Libro per ragazzi - Blocco da
Mi Chiamo
Independently Published
2019
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Il mio nome FrancescaLibro da colorare personalizzato per persone speciali. Con un design dolce gatto che sorprendono il vostro bambino con certezza. I libri da colorare sono un'idea regalo molto folle e non diventano mai noiosi, rimane un pezzo di memoria per l'eternit .I nostri bellissimi quaderni disposti sono ideali per appunti, con l'apprendimento nella scuola o in un'universit per riempire il pensiero. Scrivi i tuoi pensieri, esperienze, escursioni o impressioni personali in modo da poterle cercare in seguito. Cos i momenti belli non rimangono solo ricordi, ma sono scritti con fermezza e possono essere rivisitati e rivisti pi volte. Adatto per uso personale o come regalo per il riconoscimento. Sul lavoro o nello sport come attivit da fare o per essere in grado di misurare i propri progressi. Pu essere utilizzato per molti scopi e quindi qualcosa di molto speciale Fatto con amore.Dettagli: Formato: 15,24 x 22,86 cm (6x9 pollici)100 pagine bianche numerate, utilizzo versatile (scrivere, disegnare o scarabocchiare)Carta bianca, piacevole da scrivere e disegnareCopertina morbida opacaVi auguriamo tanta gioia Non hai trovato il tuo nome? Basta inserire "Il mio nome + nome" nella maschera di ricerca di Amazon e selezionare.
Giotto and Francesca, and Other Poems.
Andrew Knox
British Library, Historical Print Editions
2011
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