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The Body in Early Modern Italy
Human bodies have been represented and defined in various ways across different cultures and historical periods. As an object of interpretation and site of social interaction, the body has throughout history attracted more attention than perhaps any other element of human experience. The essays in this volume explore the manifestations of the body in Italian society from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Adopting a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, these fresh and thought-provoking essays offer original perspectives on corporeality as understood in the early modern literature, art, architecture, science, and politics of Italy. An impressively diverse group of contribut...
Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture
Since Jacob Burckhardt's Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1869) rhetoric as a significant cultural factor of the renaissance has largely been neglected. The present study seeks to remedy this deficit regarding the arts by concentrating on literary theory and its aspects of imagination (inventio), genre (dispositio of the genera), style (elocutio), mnemonic architecture (memoria) and representation (actio), with illustrative examples taken from Shakespeare's works, but also on the intermedial rhetoric of painting and music. Particular attention is given to the rhetorical ideology of the Renaissance.
Raphael and the Redefinition of Art in Renaissance Italy
A comprehensive re-assessment of Raphael's artistic achievement and the ways in which it transformed the idea of what art is.
Rome and Latium
Photos and concise text describe the ancient ruins, medieval monasteries, cathedrals, and secular buildings of Rome and Latium.
Titian's Portraits through Aretino's Lens
After classical antiquity, the Italian Renaissance raised the portrait, whether literary or pictorial, to the status of an important art form. Among sixteenth-century Renaissance painters, Titian made his reputation, and much of his living, by portraiture. Titian's portraits were promoted by his friend, Pietro Aretino, an eminent poet and critic, who addressed his letters and sonnets to the same personages whom Titian portrayed. In many of these letters (which often included sonnets), Aretino described both an individual patron and Titian's portrait of that patron, thus stimulating the reciprocal relation between a verbal and pictorial portrait. By investigating this unprecedented historical...
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Italy 1530-1630
This book covers one of the more obscure periods of Italian history. What we know of it is presented almost always pejoratively: an unrelieved tale of political absolution, rural refeudalisation, economic crisis, religious repression and cultural decline. But this picture is both incomplete and inaccurate, and in this important new survey Eric Cochrane has at last given the period its due.
Stein
Am künstlerischen Umgang mit dem Naturmaterial Stein, seiner Verwendung und malerischen Nachahmung, lassen sich wesentliche Fragen der frühneuzeitlichen Kunstproduktion und Kunsttheorie diskutieren. Die Anthologie versammelt Quellentexte von der Antike bis in das 18. Jahrhundert, mit denen der schriftliche Diskurs über Stein – Marmor, Porphyr und Edelstein – und die Semantisierung des Materials rekonstruiert werden können. Mit mehr als 40 kommentierten Texten von Künstlern, Kunsttheoretikern, Humanisten, Vertretern der Kirche sowie Philosophen gibt die Quellensammlung einen Einblick in den Steindiskurs des europäischen Kulturraums in der Vormoderne. Die Quellenkommentare ordnen die teils erstmals oder neu übersetzten Textpassagen in die für sie relevanten ideengeschichtlichen Kontexte ein.
Venice and the Veneto
A comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to the treasure of Venice - the historic sites, castles, palaces, churches, galleries and museums, in alphabetical order of town for easy reference.
From Ode to Anthem
Eight contributions, expanded and revised, from the U. of Wisconsin Dept. of German's Seventeenth Wisconsin Workshop (on title) held in October 1986. The papers extend from historical surveys and general topologies to specifically modern trends and theories. More than three years from workshop to publication, and no index. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
