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This enthralling book views the lives and greatest works of the Renaissance masters through the prism of their ardent rivalry. Rona Goffen, one of the most highly respected scholars of the Italian Renaissance today, brings Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian to life in this lively account of their passionate strivings to outdo both living competitors and the masters of antiquity.
“Who would have thought that the serene masterpieces of the High Renaissance owed so much of their vitality to backstage brawling? Only Rona Goffen knows enough to trace these labyrinthine rivalries. In her book the artists take on cinematic vitality, making us see the artifacts produced by such creative brawlers in entirely new ways. They are knockouts. So is her book.”—Garry Wills
“A handsome, copiously illustrated book.”—Virginia Quarterly Review
“This lively and appealing book is an important achievement. . . . Magnificently researched and handsomely produced, Renaissance Rivals advances the discussion of a central aspect of early modern culture. In doing so, it has no rivals.”—Werner Gundersheimer, American Scholar
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Correction to "Qualified Praise".......2006-07-29
Goffen has provided a clear, engaging, and refreshing view of Michelangelo and allows for further study and questioning.
I do want to make a remark regaring the review called "Qualified Praise." Goffen does not state that Michelangelo died in 1566. She adheres to the February 17, 1564 date:
"Instead, Vasari paraphrased an anecdote reported by an unknown correspondent, writing within a month of Michelangelo's death on 17 February 1564." (p. 117).
A masterful work.......2006-06-10
Goffen's book is a powerful and thrilling volume of scholarship. Having passed away of breast cancer, the author rests knowing that her words and scholarship will continue to delight and inform many people desiring a new take on the overly discussed pieces of Michelangelo and his "antagonists."
This books is both complex and lucid. Goffen has taken great care to use her language tactfully, but not sparingly. She presents many solid arguments with charged notation. The author leaves her reader swimming and fascinated at the same time. Goffen discusses the works of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian with solid grounding in the social context and network previously left behind by many scholars. Goffen is in fact so well grounded in the social context of her subject's time--and her own time--that "Renaissance Rivals" can certainly be seen as a modern day "Lives of the Artists". However, this text has not been embellished, nor fabricated by anyone desiring to create a legacy. Rather, Goffen's careful text offers argument and explanation for why Michelangelo and his rivals were indeed such great artists.
This masterful work is a pleasure to read and will certainly stand in the pantheon of scholars as an accessible text written by a brilliant author.
Qualified praise.......2006-02-13
A sumptiously illustrated book, written in a chatty, somewhat prolix style. Worthy of five stars, but for two significant problems, warranting the subtraction of two stars:
1) Some annoying factual errors, the most significant of which is the author's repeatedly giving Michelangelo's date of death as 1566, rather than 1564.
2) The binding is simply not up to the task of keeping the heavy pages of the book together. My copy has already split in a couple of places, even though it has been handled gently.
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Title: Duking it out.(Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian)(Book Review)
Author: Werner Gundersheimer
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American Scholar (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: Phi Beta Kappa Society
Volume: 72
Issue: 1
Page: 140(5)
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Title: Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Author: Marcia Hall
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Renaissance Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 57
Issue: 1
Page: 200(2)
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Cole Weston: Fifty Years
Cole Weston
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Devil Chef: The Man With The Soft-Serve Brain
Jack Pollock
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From the fiery abyss of Hell's kitchen - literally! - comes the return of the culinary arts' diminutive demon, Devil Chef! In his first feature-length story extravaganza, The Man with the Soft-Serve Brain documents Chef's titanic struggle with his chief rival, Softy (a.k.a. Citizen Cone) of Softy Soft-Serve Ice Cream! It's fire vs. ice, winner-take-all, with the sweet nectar of fast-food immortality to the winner - and the bitter ashes of drive-thru oblivion for second place! Some say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, while others contend that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but Devil Chef proves once and for all time that a man's stomach is the road to Hell!
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The most complete, reliable and comprehensive trade book about budgeting motion pictures.
Customer Reviews:
THE industry standard for budgeting..........2007-06-18
This book has been around for a long time, but it is still the definitive work on film budgeting. Whether you're working on a $50,000 indie or a $20,000,000 feature, this book lays out in detailed yet readable form the proper steps to accurately forecasting the budget of your feature. One of the most powerful aspects of this budgeting system, which makes it the industry standard, is that a full line budget gives you an individual line code for every single expense. This makes tracking your expenditures significantly less complicated.
You should be aware that this book is part two of a pair. The first part, 'Film Scheduling' shows you how to break down your script to get a shooting board, daily call sheets and the all important "actors' day out of days" - you need these calculations to feed into the budget.
Terribly Outdated and Poorly Edited.......2005-06-29
If you're looking to produce a very low-budget, extremely independent movie this book is not for you. If you are a completely green producer, this book is helpful in the sense that it gives you the page design of all the important budget forms at a much cheaper price than purchasing Movie Magic. However, the primary example in this book is a Coppola film, "The Conversation," which had a budget much higher than one could afford just with personal investments. Thus, a lot of adjusting math figures is necessary for you to get what you need out of it. What's more, this book is in desperate need of a new edition: this was printed in 1996, and a lot has changed in terms of technology and film "norms." For example, this book says the average mileage reimbursement is 28 cents per mile, which I'm sure was true in 96, but now, nine years later, the average acceptable payment is 40 cents per mile from a studio and 32 from an individual (ie low budget indie). Cell phones are not even mentioned once in this book. It's also a hard read because it's hard to get past the sophomoric spelling mistakes and typographical errors. These are small, insignificant details that just appalled me: I can't take advice from someone who doesn't know the proper use of "your" or "you're." Overall this book is just frustrating. I'm sure he is a fantastic force in the film industry, but the execution of this book made it seem like he just doesn't care; it feels like an afterthought.
WRITTEN BY A PRO.......1999-12-09
Author Ralph Singleton knows his stuff. He is not a "wannabe" producer (check out his credits on the IMDb!). Do what I did--take the complete 'do-it-yourself course' with the Scheduling book, Workbook and Forms book. Computer budgeting software is great -- but this book actually teaches you HOW to budget -- not just put numbers in columns.
An excellent guide for new and experienced producers........1999-02-23
I used this book in the recent shooting of a feature film, and found it and the separately-available workbooks very helpful. The workbooks use examples from an actual film budget ("The Conversation"); the text is clear, compelling, accurate and up-to-date. Best of the "how to" film production books I have seen and used.
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In this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries such as Vivaldi and Telemann, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention in a variety of genres posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics.
"Invention"--the word Bach and his contemporaries used for the musical idea that is behind or that generates a composition--emerges as an invaluable key in Dreyfus's analysis. Looking at important pieces in a range of genres, including concertos, sonatas, fugues, and vocal works, he focuses on the fascinating construction of the invention, the core musical subject, and then shows how Bach disposes, elaborates, and decorates it in structuring his composition. Bach and the Patterns of Invention brings us fresh understanding of Bach's working methods, and how they differed from those of the other leading composers of his day. We also learn here about Bach's unusual appropriations of French and Italian styles--and about the elevation of various genres far above their conventional status.
Challenging the restrictive lenses commonly encountered in both historical musicology and theoretical analysis, Dreyfus provocatively suggests an approach to Bach that understands him as an eighteenth-century thinker and at the same time as a composer whose music continues to speak to us today.
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The Human Bach.......2000-07-27
J. S. Bach would have been astounded by the amount of materialwritten on him since his death 250 years ago. And as the number ofbooks and articles on his life and works passes the 15,000 mark it becomes increasingly difficult to discover from among this morass the truly rewarding and insightful writing on Amazon's Composer of the Millenium. But there is one book that stands out: Laurence Dreyfus's Bach and the Patterns of Invention is a landmark both in the study of Bach's music and in music criticism more generally. This is certainly one of the best books on Bach ever written ... Dreyfus's book accomplishes the dual and seemingly paradoxical goal of removing Bach from his lofty pedestal while at the same time rendering his musical achievements all the more impressive. Dreyfus de-mythologizes Bach, and by humanizing him allows us to grasp in a new way the nature and meaning of his creative acts. The book examines, often in great detail, Bach's mental processes, the problems he posed for himself while composing and the solutions he chose, sometimes from among many options; the possibilities that Bach's musical ideas yielded and the methods he used in arriving at his ultimate choices from among these possibilities are the "patterns of inventions" of Dreyfus's title. Thus Dreyfus's first chapter on Bach's C Major Invention, a piece marvelled at and agonized over by generations of piano students young and old, lays out for our inspection the basic musical unit-the "invention"-Bach devised and then manipulated in order to craft this most engaging of miniatures. Dreyfus's real contribution comes in describing Bach's elegant and often demanding methods of constructing the piece; while elucidating Bach's creativity and the clarity of his thought, Dreyfus points out the repeated flashes of brilliance that make this seemingly disarming Invention the beloved masterpiece that it is. Given the complexity of much of Bach's music it is not surprising that the author's treatment of the subject is often exacting in its demands on the reader. Bach's music is rarely easy, and neither is this book. But like Bach music, it is both challenging and immensely enjoyable. And although a basic knowledge of music theory and the ability to read music is certainly helpful, the insights of the book are also available to all those interested in Bach. The book's welcoming attitude is achieved mainly by Dreyfus's enviable prose-some of the most beautiful and sensitive writing about music of any kind-and partly by the wide range of literary sources and aesthetic themes Dreyfus deals with, as in the final chapter which places Bach's work in the context of important philosophical debates of the early Enlightenment and concludes by relating this dynamic to our own historical perspective. Bach and the Patterns of Invention is a scholarly work- awarded the Best Book of the Year in 1997 by the American Musicological Society-but never a dryly academic one. Like his predecessors in the field of Bach studies, Dreyfus considers Bach a far greater composer than contemporaries such as his friend Telemann. However, Dreyfus elevates Bach not by clinging to the shibboleths of Bach criticism, but rather, by examining in depth the marvelous mechanisms of Bach's creative process and by comparing his unrelenting drive to get the most from his musical material with the less demanding standards of the wider musical culture. Thus while the book is not a biography we gain a much more intimate knowledge of the man behind the works, the artistic personality of the composer at his desk.
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La Peticion
Desbordes. M.
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Title: Amparo crucial.(petición de amparo del reo Raúl Salinas de Gortari)
Author: Jorge Carrasco Araizaga
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Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 27, 2005
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Issue: 1478
Page: 26(1)
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Title: Bajo el paraguas japonés: Fujimori de vuelta a la política peruana: de acuerdo con el gobierno de Toledo, la petición de extradición se sustenta en que existe un proceso en contra de Fujimori ya que es culpable de delitos graves como "homicidio calificado, desaparición forzosa y lesiones graves".
Author: Joaquín Pérez Sánchez
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Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: August 10, 2003
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 50
Issue: 2617
Page: 60(2)
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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on June 29, 1997. The length of the article is 684 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: En 1987, antes del destape de Salinas, Fidel no atendió la petición de La Quina para que el PRI encabezara los reclamos del pueblo. (Partido Revolucionario Institucional; México)(TT: In 1987, before Salinas' nomination, Fidel ignored La Quina's request that PRI head the people's claims) (TA: Institutional Revolutionary Party; Mexico)
Author: Fernando Ortega Pizarro
Publication:
Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 29, 1997
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: n1078
Page: p40(1)
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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on December 23, 2001. The length of the article is 891 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: En Los Pinos, recurso de petición de Proceso para investigar el asesinato de Faustino López Osuna.(TT: In Los Pinos, Proceso presents a demand to investigate the murder of Faustino López Osuna.)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Gerardo Albarrán de Alba
Publication:
Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 23, 2001
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Page: 18
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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on November 20, 1999. The length of the article is 942 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: La comunidad cinematográfica concreta su petición de adquirir salas para cine mexicano.(TT: Movie colony requests acquisition of movie theaters for the Mexican industry.)
Author: Judith Amador Tello
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Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 20, 1999
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Page: 66
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Title: La idea de las megabanderas 'no nació de una petición popular, la identidad no tiene que ver con el tamaño de los símbolos nacionales': Florescano. (Enrique Florescano, historiador mexicano)(TT: Florescano: the idea of the mega-flags 'was not born out of popular demand, identity does not have anything to do with the size of the national symbols') (TA: Enrique Florescano, Mexican historian)
Author: José Alberto Castro
Publication:
Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 7, 1997
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: n1079
Page: p66(1)
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Title: La ONU, al margen: rompimiento del orden internacional. (Jaque mate).(Estados Unidos retira petición de resolución del Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas sobre Guerra contra Irak )
Author: Sergio Sarmiento
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Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: March 23, 2003
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 49
Issue: 2597
Page: 13(1)
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Title: Mejorar las instituciones culturales, no desaparecerlas, petición de cineastas y actores.(México)(TT: Improve cultural institutions, filmmakers and artists emand.)(TA: Mexico)
Author: Columba Vértiz
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Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 17, 2000
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Page: 62
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Title: Mi petición a Los Ocho.(carta a los líderes de las naciones industrializadas)(TT: my petition to the Eight.)(TA: letter to the leaders of the major industrialized nations)(Artículo Breve)
Publication:
Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2001
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 48
Issue: 2511
Page: 82
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Film on Four 1982/1991: A Survey
John Pym
Manufacturer: British Film Inst
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