Art and Politics in Renaissance Italy
British Academy Lectures
Published on 13. April 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-19-726159-0 (ISBN)
Description
Our modern conception of the Renaissance has been changed sustantially by the scholarship of the last 50 years, and the British contribution to this research has been enormous. An essential part of this scholarship is now made more widely available within this lavishly illustrated selection of lectures delivered by distinguished historians to the British Academy.
Reviews / Votes
the volume is a tribute to the Academy's work of promoting research in the humanities In this work George Holmes ... has collected eleven gems from the British Academy's "Italian Lectures" and "Aspects of Art Lectures" series. It is an anthology that will impress the neophyte or general student of the period and edify and delight the expert. Joseph P. Byrne, West Georgia College, History, Spring 1995More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous halftones, line figures
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
616 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-726159-0 (9780197261590)
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Person
George Holmes was a delegate of the Press until October 1992. He is the editor of the Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe (1988, OPB 1990) and the Oxford History of Medieval Europe (OPB 1992), and amongst his other books are The Florentine Enlightenment 1400-1450 (OUP PB 1992).
Content
George Holmes: Introduction; C. M. Ady: Morals and Manners of the Quattrocento; George Holmes: Florence and the Great Schism; Bernard Ashmole: Cyriac of Ancona; Denys Hay: Flavio Biondo and the Middle Ages; Cecil Grayson; Leon Battista Alberti and the Beginnings of Italian Grammar; Nicolai Rubinstein: Lorenzo de'Medici: The Formation of his Statecraft; Michael Mallett: Diplomacy and War in Later Fifteenth-Century Italy; D. M. Bueno de Mesquita: The Conscience of the Prince; John Shearman: The Vatican Stanze: Functions and Decoration; Johannes Wilde: The Decoration of the Sistine Chapel; Edgar Wind: Michelangelo's Prophets and Sibyls