
The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory
Patricia Emison(Author)
Cambridge University Press
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2011
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-107-00526-6 (ISBN)
Description
Why 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 Woelfflin. 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
12 Plates, unspecified; 60 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
698 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-00526-6 (9781107005266)
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Person
Patricia Emison is Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of several books, including Creating the 'Divine' Artist: From Dante to Michelangelo, The Shaping of Art History: Meditations on a Discipline, The Simple Art: Printed Works on Paper in an Age of Magnificence, Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art, and The Art of Teaching: Sixteenth-Century Allegorical Prints and Drawings.
Content
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.