The virtues and vices in the arts : a sourcebook / edited and with introductions by Shaw R. Tucker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tucker, Shaw R., (editor, writer of introduction).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vices in art.

Vices in literature.

Virtues in art.

Virtues in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : The Lutterworth Press, 2015.

Summary:

"The seven deadly sins are pride, envy, anger, sloth, gluttony, greed, and lust. The seven virtues are prudence, fortitude, temperance, justice, faith, hope, and love. The Virtues and Vices in the Arts brings all of them together and for the first time lays out their history in a collection of the most important philosophical, religious, literary, and art-historical works. Starting with the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian antecedents, this anthology of source documents traces the tradition of virtues and vices through its cultural apex during the medieval era and then into their continued development and transformation from the Renaissance to the present. This anthology includes excerpts of Plato’s Republic, the Bible, Dante’s Purgatorio, and the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and C.S. Lewis. Also included are works of art from medieval manuscripts; paintings by Giotto, Veronese, and Paul Cadmus; prints by Brueghel; and a photograph by Oscar Rejlander. What these works show is the vitality and richness of the virtues and vices in the arts from their origins to the present." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Foundations – Codification of the virtues and vices – The Medieval apex – The transformation of the virtues and vices – The tradition extended.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0718844106

9780718844103

0718894049

9780718894047

OCLC:

946309291