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Creating the "divine" artist : from Dante to Michelangelo / by Patricia A. Emison.
LIBRA N6915 .E466 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Emison, Patricia A.
- Series:
- Cultures, beliefs, and traditions 1382-5364 ; v. 19.
- Cultures, beliefs, and traditions, 1382-5364 ; v. 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Renaissance--Italy.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Art criticism.
- History.
- Artists.
- Social conditions.
- Italy.
- Artists--Italy--Social conditions--History--16th century.
- Art criticism--Italy--History--16th century.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 388 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Summary:
- An investigation of why Michelangelo first, and then many other, Renaissance artists and works were called "divine" by contemporaries, this study ranges from fourteenth-century praise of Dante to a variety of sixteenth-century habits of courtly compliment.
- Contents:
- The Sponge of Protogenes 19
- Not Quite the Liberal Artist 59
- The Divine Poet, Twinned 111
- Idioti or Angels 173
- Listening for the Music of the Spheres 215
- The Artist as Huomo Famosissimo 255
- Epilogue: The Romantic Deluge 303
- Appendix The Historiography of Ingegno 321
- Appendix Fornari's Gloss on Ariosto's Canto XXXIII 349.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-374) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004137092
- OCLC:
- 54081833
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