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The European Renaissance, 1400-1600 / Robin Kirkpatrick.
LIBRA CB361 .K57 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kirkpatrick, Robin, 1943-
- Series:
- Arts, culture, and society in the Western world
- Arts, culture and society in the Western world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Renaissance.
- Arts, Renaissance--Europe.
- Arts, Renaissance.
- Arts, European.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow ; New York : Longman, 2002.
- Summary:
- "This is a beautifully presented and lavishly illustrated history which brings together all Renaissance arts throughout Europe - plays, music, literature and philosophy. With Italy at its center, but encompassing the visual and literary arts throughout Renaissance Europe, this evocative history reviews both the artistic production of the period, and the social and economic soil in which it flourished. Covering the familiar literary and artistic giants of the time, Robin Kirkpatrick also pays attention to less recognized artists and craftsmen, and examines the crafts of marquetry, silver-work and architectural ornamentation which were central to that period. For those interested in European history of the Renaissance.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Renaissance Questions 1
- Issues and Interpretation 1
- Europe United? 5
- Historical Outlines 11
- Artistic Continuities 17
- Renaissance Past and Future 24
- Part 1 Thought and Context 29
- 1 Cities, Spaces and Institutions 31
- The Piazza and Political Imagining 31
- The Florentine Formula 34
- Courtly Variations: The Example of Urbino 40
- Dynasties, Nations and States: The French Example 47
- Cities of God: Utopia, Geneva and Rome 54
- The Domain of Taste 66
- 2 Education, Imitation and Creation 73
- Book-Learning in the Renaissance 73
- 'I do not adore Aristotle' 82
- Platonic Possibilities: Ficino and Cusanus 88
- Texts and Text-Books: Valla and Ramus 100
- 3 Reformation and the Renaissance Individual 106
- The Limits of Humanism 106
- Erasmus, Luther and St Ignatius 109
- From Purgatory to Pyre: Conscience in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 125
- 4 Science, Art and Language: a Conclusion to Part One 136
- Renaissance Rationality 136
- Scientific Humanism and Religious Science 139
- Leonardo, Van Eyck and Vesalius 145
- The Crux of Language: Bruno and Montaigne 150
- Part 2 The Arts 163
- 5 The Figurative Arts 165
- Competitive Eyes 165
- Seeing in the Renaissance 174
- Experimentation in Matter and Form 178
- The Divine Artist 191
- Movements in Mannerism 210
- 6 Lyric, Epic and Pastoral 220
- Petrarchan Possibilities 220
- The Lyric: Passion and Penitence 230
- The Epic Imagination: Tasso, Camoes and Spenser 250
- Pastoral Experimentation 261
- 7 Music 269
- A Flemish Polyphony 269
- Dufay and Josquin in Italy 281
- Theory, Symbol and Passion 294
- Words and Music in the Sixteenth Century 298
- 8 Prose Fiction and Theatre 315
- The Popular Voice: Carnival and Boccaccio 315
- Novelle and Plays: Framing Gossip 320
- Rabelais, Cervantes and Textual Riot 329
- Shakespeare the Critic 346
- A Tragic Afterword 363.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0582294452
- 0582294444
- OCLC:
- 48943198
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