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A Scarlet Renaissance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

A Scarlet Renaissance

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"This publication features current scholarly work undertaken by former pupils of Sarah Blake McHam and exhibits a wide ranging discussion of Italian art from the trecento to the early seventeenth century, covering works in various media but primarily sculpture"--Provided by publisher.

Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Pliny's Natural History (A.D. 77-79) served as an indispensable guide to and exemplar of the ideals of art for Renaissance artists, patrons, and theorists. Bearing the imprimatur of antiquity, the Natural History gave permission to do art on a grand scale, to value it, and to see it as an incomparable source of prestige and pleasure. In Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance, Sarah Blake McHam surveys Pliny's influence, from Petrarch, the first figure to recognize Pliny's relevance to understanding the history of Greek art and its reception by the Romans, to Vasari and late 16th-century theorists. McHam charts the historiography of Latin and Italian manuscripts and early printed copies of the Natural History to trace the dissemination of its contents to artists from Donatello and Ghiberti to Michelangelo and Titian. Meanwhile, benefactors commissioned works intended to emulate the prototypes Pliny described, aligning themselves with the great patrons of antiquity. This is a richly illustrated, comprehensive reference work of social history, myth making, iconography, theory, and criticism.

Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture offers provocative insights into Italian Renaissance sculpture.

  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

"Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art "

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. This book reconsiders depictions of the ambiguous encounter of Mary Magdalene and Christ in the garden (John 20:11-19, known as the Noli me tangere) and that of Christ?s post-Resurrection appearance to Thomas (John 20:24-29, the Doubting Thomas) as manifestations of complex theological and art theoretical milieus. By focusing on key artistic monuments of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods, the authors demonstrate a rela...

Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 166

Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture

  • Categories: Art

The great Venetian sculptors of the High Renaissance, led by Tullio Lombardo (c. 1455-1532), explored a poetic and nostalgic approach to classical antiquity in their work. Their expression shares much with Mantegna, Bellini, Giorgione, and Titian in these painters' imaginative evocations of ancient history, mythology, philosophy, and poetry. Featuring a range of Tullio's work, including his sensuous and dramatic double-portrait reliefs, this book introduces the romantic qualities and beautiful craftsmanship of the sculptor and his closest followers, including his brother Antonio Lombardo, Simone Bianco, Antonio Minello, and Giammaria Mosca. Essays examine Tullio's innovations and the Venetian cultural setting where he developed them in dialogue with the northern Italian masters of Renaissance painting. Twelve works, carefully selected from this milieu, exemplify the creative approach and influ­ence of Tullio and the Lombardo workshop. Published in association with the National Gallery, Washington Exhibition Schedule: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (7/4/09 - 10/31/09)

Franciscans and Preaching
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 542

Franciscans and Preaching

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-19
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Francis of Assisi, whose Gospel performance captured the imagination of his day, fostered a movement which was fascinated by the transformative power of the embodied Word. This book offers an extensive English language study of medieval Franciscan preaching.

Beyond the Yellow Badge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 601

Beyond the Yellow Badge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Bringing together thirteen leading art historians, Beyond the Yellow Badge seeks to reframe the relationship between European visual culture and the many changing aspects of the Christian majority’s negative conceptions of Jews and Judaism during the Middle Ages and early modern periods.

The Sword of Judith
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 511

The Sword of Judith

The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous. Judith's heroic action not only became a validating charter myth of Judaism itself but has also been appropriated by many Christian and secular groupings, and has been an inspiration for numerous literary texts and works of art. It continues to exercise its power over artists, authors and academics and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. It transforms our understanding across a wide range of disciplines. The collection includes new archival source studies, the translation of unpublished manuscripts, the translation of texts unavailable in English, and Judith images and music.

Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-03-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

From Pliny to Petrarch to Pope-Hennessy and beyond, many have understood the obvious connection between portraiture and commemorative practice. This book expands and nuances our understanding of Renaissance portraiture; the author shows it to be complexly generated within a discourse of male anxiety and pre-mortuary mourning. She argues that portraiture could defer memory loss or, at the very least, pictorially console the subject against his own potentially unmourned death. This book recognizes a socio-cultural anxiety - the fear not merely of death but also of being forgotten - and identifies a set of pictorial, literary and theoretical strategies consequently formulated to ensure memory. ...

Michelangelo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Michelangelo

  • Categories: Art

A groundbreaking account of the role of writing in Michelangelo's art Michelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Pietà, and the dome of St. Peter's. Yet throughout his seventy-five year career, he was engaged in another artistic act that until now has been largely overlooked: he not only filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, sketches, and doodles, but also, on fully a third of these sheets, composed his own words. Here we can read the artist's marginal notes to his most enduring masterpieces; workaday memos to assistants and pupils; poetry and letters; and achingly personal expressions of ambition and despair ...