
The Culture of the High Renaissance
Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome
Ingrid D. Rowland(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 15. January 2001
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Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-521-79441-1 (ISBN)
Description
Between 1480 and 1520, a concentration of talented artists, including Melozzo da Forli, Bramante, Pinturicchio, Raphael, and Michelangelo, arrived in Rome and produced some of the most enduring works of art ever created. This period, now called the High Renaissance, is generally considered to be one of the high points of Western civilisation. How did it come about, and what were the forces that converged to spark such an explosion of creative activity? In this study, Ingrid Rowland examines the culture, society, and intellectual norms that generated the High Renaissance. This interdisciplinary 2001 study assesses the intellectual paradigm shift that occurred at the turn of the fifteenth century. It also finds and explains the connections between ideas, people, and the art works they created by looking at economics, art, contemporary understanding of classical antiquity, and social conventions.
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'[Rowland] brings this lost world back to the three-dimensional life and vivid color ... a splendid writer whose words evoke unforgettable images of Renaissance society ...' The New York Review of Books '... splendid monograph from which every student of Renaissance Rome will profit immensely.' LatomusMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
722 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-79441-1 (9780521794411)
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Content
1. Initiation; 2. Alexandria on the Tiber (1492-1503); 3. The curial marketplace; 4. The cultural marketplace; 5. Tabulation; 6. Sweating towards Parnassus (1503-13); 7. Imitation (1513-21); 8. Epilogue: Reformation (1517-25).