Claudia Lehmann – författare

Examining Bernini''s works from 1665 on, from Paris and Rome, this book demonstrates the wealth of material still to be drawn from close visual and material examination, archival research, and comparative textual analysis. On the whole, this collection deals with Bernini''s position as the leading creator of portraits - in oils, marble, monumental architecture, and metaphor - of some of the most powerful political players of his day. These studies speak to the growing distance of Gallic absolutism from the fading dreams of papal hegemony over Europe, and to the complexities of Bernini''s role as mouthpiece, obstacle, and flatterer of the Princes of the Papal States.

Examining Bernini''s works from 1665 on, from Paris and Rome, this book demonstrates the wealth of material still to be drawn from close visual and material examination, archival research, and comparative textual analysis. On the whole, this collection deals with Bernini''s position as the leading creator of portraits - in oils, marble, monumental architecture, and metaphor - of some of the most powerful political players of his day. These studies speak to the growing distance of Gallic absolutism from the fading dreams of papal hegemony over Europe, and to the complexities of Bernini''s role as mouthpiece, obstacle, and flatterer of the Princes of the Papal States.

In der italienischen Kunstproduktion und Kunsttheorie der Renaissance bezieht sich der Terminus chiaroscuro in erster Linie auf die Artikulation plastischer Werte, auf das Formulieren eines rilievo. Rilievo meint hier ein innovatives Gestaltungsprinzip, das den Eigenwert der mittelalterlichen Buntfarbe durch den Darstellungswert unbunter Farbtöne ersetzt. Malerei und Graphik tendierten im nordalpinen Raum hingegen dazu, mittels des Helldunkel die Oberflächenbeschaffenheit von Materialien zu evozieren. Aus dieser komparativen Perspektive erfasst der Band das Helldunkel als ästhetisches Prinzip, das als zentrale Signatur der gesamteuropäischen Kunstgeschichte zwischen 1300 und 1600 zu verstehen ist.

In der italienischen Kunstproduktion und Kunsttheorie der Renaissance bezieht sich der Terminus chiaroscuro in erster Linie auf die Artikulation plastischer Werte, auf das Formulieren eines rilievo. Rilievo meint hier ein innovatives Gestaltungsprinzip, das den Eigenwert der mittelalterlichen Buntfarbe durch den Darstellungswert unbunter Farbtöne ersetzt. Malerei und Graphik tendierten im nordalpinen Raum hingegen dazu, mittels des Helldunkel die Oberflächenbeschaffenheit von Materialien zu evozieren. Aus dieser komparativen Perspektive erfasst der Band das Helldunkel als ästhetisches Prinzip, das als zentrale Signatur der gesamteuropäischen Kunstgeschichte zwischen 1300 und 1600 zu verstehen ist.

In a world moving towards services, driving service productivity is a central challenge for leaders and members of all types of organisations: for service businesses there is a clear need to be “productive”, but it is far less clear what this exactly means. In this book, we invite you on a journey that explores the ways, tools and options for driving service productivity. We take an innovator’s perspectives and look at the tricky challenge of service productivity as a landscape of options for designing the future of services.

Case examples, from the airport, hotel, healthcare, and professional service industry, offer insights in the methods used and approaches taken in business practice. Research results provide food for thought and valuable advice on the path towards superior service productivity. Throughout the book we also listen to the views and advices of interviewed experts from academia as well as business practice on how to drive service productivity.

A forecast on how service productivity and service innovation might evolve in the future provides us – and hopefully you as a reader – with the necessary food for thought to develop our own understanding of driving service productivity in different business settings. Overall, this book is not a traditional “academic product” that summarises the views of a few, but a co-created offering that profited enormously from the contributions of so many.