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Transformations of time and temporality in Medieval and Renaissance art / by Simona Cohen.
LIBRA N8253.T5 C64 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Simona.
- Series:
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 228.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; Volume 6.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 228. Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History ; Volume 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time in art.
- Time--Social aspects--Europe--History.
- Time.
- Time perception--Europe--History.
- Time perception.
- Art, Medieval--Themes, motives.
- Art, Medieval.
- Art, Renaissance--Themes, motives.
- Art, Renaissance.
- History.
- Time--Social aspects.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 356 pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Brill, 2014.
- Summary:
- A multifaceted picture of the dynamic concepts of time and temporality is demonstrated in medieval and Renaissance art, as adopted in speculative, ecclesiastical, socio-political, propagandist, moralistic, and poetic contexts. Questions regarding perception of time are investigated through innovative aspects of Renaissance iconography.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part one: Sources and prototypes of the renaissance iconography of time
- Concepts of time in classical philosophy
- Classical personifications of time
- Early Christian and medieval concepts of time
- Time and temporality in medieval art
- The Romanesque zodiac: its symbolic function on the church facade
- Part two: Changing concepts of time in the renaissance
- Introduction: Changing concepts of time in the renaissance
- The renaissance personification of time in illustrations to Petrarch's Trionfo del Tempo
- Time, virtuousness and wisdom in Giorgione's Castelfranco fresco
- Kairos/Occasio - Vicissitudes of propitious time from antiquity to the renaissance
- Veritas filia temporis: time in Cinquecento propoganda
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004267855
- 9004267859
- OCLC:
- 866803677
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