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Rome: Continuing Encounters between Past and Present
Few other cities can compare with Rome's history of continuous habitation, nor with the survival of so many different epochs in its present. This volume explores how the city's past has shaped the way in which Rome has been built, rebuilt, represented and imagined throughout its history. Bringing together scholars from the disciplines of architectural history, urban studies, art history, archaeology and film studies, this book comprises a series of studies on the evolution of the city of Rome and the ways in which it has represented and reconfigured itself from the medieval period to the present day. Moving from material appropriations such as spolia in the medieval period, through the carto...
The Sixteenth-century Italian Impresa in Theory and Practice
This is a monograph on what the author calls an expression of both individuality, the innermost thoughts and feelings, the intellectual personality of 16th century Italian men and women, and of the courtly, academic, humanistic and vernacular culture in which they lived.
Experiencing Art and Architecture
In this multidisciplinary book, Sanda Iliescu articulates a rich, multi-faceted approach to the aesthetic experience. Through in-depth discussions of her own lived encounters with art, architecture, and the world around her, she advocates a way of looking that blends sensory perception, formal analysis, social and political consciousness, and personal memory. Focusing special attention on the aesthetic concept of the figure-ground problem, the author challenges this foundational principle’s presumed hierarchies and shows how a new and more dynamic understanding of it can enhance our way of looking at and understanding art and architecture. Works discussed in the book include a wide range of contemporary and historic art and architecture, among them artworks by Rembrandt, Matisse, Eva Hesse, and David Hammons; architecture by Zaha Hadid, Peter Zumthor, and Weiss/Manfredi; and non-Western works such as a thirteenth-century Chinese vase and the Ryōanji dry garden in Kyoto, Japan. Personal and engaging, this book is for a wide audience of those practicing, studying, or with an interest in the creative fields, from beginners to seasoned professionals.
New Apelleses and New Apollos
This book breaks new ground by illuminating the key role of verse-writing as a cultural strategy on the part of Italian Renaissance artists. It does so by undertaking a wide-ranging study of poems by painters, sculptors, architects, and goldsmiths who were active in Florence under Cosimo I and Francesco I de’ Medici – a milieu in which many practitioners of the visual arts appropriated the literary medium to address issues related to their primary professions. New Apelleses, and New Apollos intervenes in the burgeoning scholarly discourse on the intellectual life of artists in early modern Italy, revealing how poetry often provides fresh insights into art-theoretical debates, patronage questions, workshop cultures, issues of professional identity, and networks of personal relations.
Riten, Gesten, Zeremonien
Riten, Gesten und Zeremonien avancierten jüngst zu zentralen Gegenständen im kulturwissenschaftlichen Zugriff auf vormoderne Gesellschaften. Trotz analoger Fokussierung der verschiedenen historisch arbeitenden Disziplinen herrscht dabei eine große Vielfalt unterschiedlicher Ansätze. Der vorliegende Band führt die Fruchtbarkeit einer Fokussierung auf ritualisiertes Handeln, den Gebrauch von Gesten und zeremonielle Vorgänge durch exemplarische Studien aus verschiedenen Disziplinen vor. Zur Sprache kommen u.a. Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der Geschichts-, Theater-, Religions- und Literaturwissenschaft, aber auch Theologen und Kunsthistorikerinnen. Die Beiträge bieten damit ein breites Panorama des Einsatzes von Riten, Gesten und Zeremonien als Mittel zur Herstellung und zum Ausdruck sozialer Ordnung. In drei thematischen Blöcken zu Liturgie, Recht und Politik fassen Fallstudien Prozesse von Sinnstiftung durch rituelles Handeln und gestisch-symbolische Kommunikation. Die Unterschiedlichkeit der Zugriffe führt zugleich exemplarisch die je eigenen Instrumentarien und Erkenntnismöglichkeiten der beteiligten Disziplinen vor.
Castiglione's Allegory
Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (Il libro del cortegiano, 1528), a dialogue in which the interlocutors attempt to describe the perfect courtier, was one of the most influential books of the Renaissance. In recent decades a number of postmodern readings of this work have appeared, emphasizing what is often characterized as the playful indeterminacy of the text, and seeking to detect inconsistencies which are interpreted as signs of anxiety or bad faith in its presentation. In contrast to these postmodern readings, the present study conducts an experiment. What understanding does one gain of Castiglione’s book if one attempts an early modern reading? The author approaches The Book of th...
The Charisma of Distant Places
This cultural history of early medieval travel and religion reveals how movement affected society, demonstrating the connectedness of people and regions between 500 and 850 CE. In The Charisma of Distant Places, Courtney Luckhardt enriches our understanding of migration through her examination of religious movement. Vertical links to God and horizontal links to distant regions identified religious travelers – both men and women – as holy, connected to the human and the divine across physical and spiritual distances. Using textual sources, material culture, and place studies, this project is among the first to contextualize the geographic and temporal movement of early medieval people to ...
The Cults of Raphael and Michelangelo
This study explores the phenomenon of the cults of Raphael and Michelangelo in relation to their death, burial, and posthumous fame—or second life—from their own times through the nineteenth century. These two artists inspired fervent followings like no other artists before them. The affective response of those touched by the potency of the physical presence of their art- works, personal effects, and remains—or even touched by the power of their creative legacy—opened up new avenues for artistic fame, divination, and commemoration. Within this cultural framework, this study charts the elevation of the status of dozens of other artists in Italy through funerals and tomb memorialization, many of which were held and made in response to those of Raphael and Michelangelo. By bringing together disparate sources and engaging material as well as a variety of types of artworks and objects, this book will be of great interest to anyone who studies early modern Italy, art history, cultural history, and Italian studies.
Gereimte Bilder
Die Komplexität der barocken Fi-gurengedichte stellt heutige Leser vor mehrfache Herausforderungen: Einer-seits setzen die Texte ein vielschichti-ges kulturgeschichtliches Kontextwis-sen voraus, andererseits legen sie es nahe, die Verbindung zu späteren bild- und zeichentheoretischen Debat-ten von der Aufklärung bis in die Ge-genwart herzustellen. Für beide For-schungsrichtungen bietet diese Studie erstmals eine umfassende und konzise Grundlage. Der Band beleuchtet die Blütezeit der 'gereimten Bilder' aus zwei systema-tisch aufeinander bezogenen Blickwin-keln: Ein erster Teil erschließt die Texte unter medientheoretischen und semio-tischen Gesichtspunkten als 'hybride' Gattung. Diese Analyse gibt ein In-strumentarium zur Hand, das eindring-liche Interpretationen einzelner Fi-gurengedichte überhaupt erst ermög-licht. Der zweite, umfangreichere Teil stellt die Bilder-Reime in ihren kultur-historischen Kontext. Umfassende Kommentierungen eröffnen die in den Werken jeweils vorausgesetzten Wis-sens- und Verstehenshorizonte
