The Italian Renaissance and cultural memory / Patricia Emison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emison, Patricia A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Renaissance--Italy.

Art, Renaissance.

Italy.

Art, Renaissance--Italy--Influence.

Physical Description:

xiii, 238 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Summary:

"Why did Renaissance art come to matter so much, so widely, and for so long? Patricia Emison's answer depends 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 19th-century studies of Burckhardt and Wölfflin. Demonstrating that the imitation of nature and of antiquity must no longer define its limits, she exposes Renaissance style self-consciously modern aspect. She sets the art against the literary and political interests of the time, and analyzes works both of very familiar artists Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael and of lesser-known figures, including Cima and Barocci. An understanding emerges of both the period's long-standing fame and its various historical debts. Moving beyond the Renaissance, Emison unfolds the varying and layered significance it has held from the Old Master era through Impressionism, Modernism, and Post-Modernism"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107005266

1107005264

OCLC:

696778662