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Raphael's ostrich / Una Roman D'Elia.
De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- D'Elia, Una Roman, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ostriches in art--History.
- Ostriches in art.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Painting, Renaissance.
- Raphael, 1483-1520--Criticism and interpretation.
- Raphael.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 251 pages :) color illustrations ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Explores artistic depictions of the ostrich from ancient Egypt to the Renaissance works of Raphael. Traces the history of shifting interpretations given to the ostrich in scientific texts, literature, and religious writings"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Raphael's disputed legacy
- A brief history of the ostrich : antiquity and the Middle Ages
- The eagle and the ostrich : the court of Urbino
- Pope Leo X and Raphael's ostriches
- Raphael's heirs
- Farnese ostriches and Vasari's Raphael
- Fortune is an ostrich : discontent in the 1550s and 1560s
- Curiosity and the ostrich in the Counter-Reformation
- Taming the ostrich : Ripa and Aldrovandi.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271077499
- 0271077492
- OCLC:
- 948512315
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