The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory
The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory
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GBPWhy did Renaissance art come to matter so much, so widely, and for so long? Patricia Emison's answer draws on a recalibrated view of the long Renaissance – from 1300 to 1600 – synthesizing the considerable evolution in our understanding of the epoch since the foundational nineteenth-century studies of Jacob Burckhardt and Heinrich Wölfflin. Demonstrating that the imitation of nature and of antiquity must no longer define its limits, she exposes the self-consciously modern aspect of Renaissance style. She sets the art against the literary and political interests of time and analyzes works of both very familiar artists – Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael – and lesser-known figures, such as Cima da Conegliano and Federico Barocci, as well as various printmakers. Succinct yet expansive, this treatment of the period also explores its layered significance for subsequent generations, from the Old Masters to the Post-Modernists.
- Designed to help someone new to the period understand the Renaissance quite quickly, or to help someone already familiar with the period to take a broad overview
- Geographically and chronologically wide-ranging but concise
- Integrates the history of prints, not just as an accessory but as a fundamental part of the art of the period
Product details
February 2012Hardback
9781107005266
264 pages
259 × 185 × 17 mm
0.73kg
72 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A historiographical overview
- 3. Not only rebirth
- 4. Truth and likeness
- 5. Visualizing ideas
- 6. Why did the high Renaissance happen?
- 7. Revolutionary norms of beauty
- 8. 'Genius'
- 9. Epilogue.
