The mythological origins of Renaissance Florence : the city as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem / Irina Chernetsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chernetsky, Irina, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renaissance--Italy--Florence.

Renaissance.

Politics and culture--Italy--Florence.

Politics and culture.

Public spaces--Italy--Florence.

Public spaces.

Monuments--Italy--Florence.

Monuments.

Florence (Italy)--Symbolic representation.

Florence (Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted Florence as the reincarnation of the great cities of pagan and Christian antiquity - Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. The architectural image of an ideal Florence was discussed in chronicles and histories, poetry and prose, and treatises on art and religious sermons. It was also portrayed in paintings, sculpture, and sketches, as well as encoded in buildings erected during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Over time, the concept of an ideal Florence became inseparable from the real city, in both its social and architectural structures. Chernetsky demonstrates how the Renaissance notion of genealogy was applied to Florence, which was considered to be part of a family of illustrious cities of both the past and present. She also explores the concept of the ideal city in its intellectual, political, and aesthetic contexts, while offering new insights into the experience of urban space.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Jan 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-009-04128-2

1-009-04148-7

1-009-03911-3