Green worlds in early modern Italy : art and the verdant earth / edited by Karen Hope Goodchild, April Oettinger and Leopoldine Prosperetti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barolsky, Paul, contributor.

Goodchild, Karen Hope, editor.

Oettinger, April, editor.

Pederson, Jill, contributor.

Prosperetti, Leopoldine, editor.

Russell, Susan, contributor.

Series:

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700.

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Italian.

Nature in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

The green mantle of the earth! This metaphor is a poetic image that borrows from the vocabulary of weaving and epitomizes the Renaissance interest in "fashioning green worlds" in art and poetry. Here it serves as a motto for a cultural poetics that made representing living nature increasingly popular across Italy in the Early Modern period. The explosion of landscape art in this era is often associated with the rise of interest in the literary pastoral, narrowly defined, but this volume expands that understanding to show Green's broad appeal as it intrigued audiences ranging from the ecclesiastic to the medical and scientific to the humanistic and courtly. The essays gathered here explore the expanding technologies and varied cultural dimensions of verzure and verdancy in the Italian Renaissance, and thus the role of visual art in shaping the poetics and expression of greenery in the arts of the 16th-century and beyond.

Contents:

Introduction. A Fresh Vision of the Natural World in Renaissance Italy / Karen Goodchild, April Oettinger, Leopoldine Prosperetti

The Green Places of Fra Filippo Lippi and Sandro Botticelli / Rebekah Compton

Anthropomorphic Trees and Animated Nature in Lorenzo Lotto's 1509 St. Jerome / April Oettinger

'Honesta voluptas': The Renaissance Justification for Enjoyment of the Natural World / Paul Holberton

"The Sala delle Asse as Locus Amoenus: Revisiting Leonardo da Vinci's Arboreal Imagery in Milan's Castello Sforzesco" / Jill Pederson

Naturalism and Antiquity, Redefined, in Vasari's Verzure / Karen Hope Goodchild

Verdant Architecture and Tripartite Chorography: Toeput and the Italian Villa Tradition / Natsumi Nonaka

Titian: Sylvan Poet / Leopoldine Prosperetti

From Venice to Tivoli: Girolamo Muziano and the 'Invention' of the Tiburtine Landscape / Patrizia Tosini

Of Oak and Elder, Cloud-like Angels, and a Bird's Nest: The Graphic Interpretations of Titian's The Death of St. Peter Martyr by Martino Rota, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Valentin Lefebre, John Baptist Jackson, and their Successors / Sabine Peinelt-Schmidt

The Verdant as Violence: The Storm Landscapes of Herman van Swanevelt and Gaspard Dughet / Susan Russell

Afterword. A Brief Journey Through the Green World of Renaissance Venice / Paul Barolsky.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

ISBN:

1-003-69695-3

90-485-6651-7

90-485-3586-7

9781040780602

9781003696957

OCLC:

1102472011