Quixotic frescoes : Cervantes and Italian Renaissance art / Frederick A. de Armas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Armas, Frederick A., 1945-

Series:

German and European studies The convergence of civilizations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ekphrasis.

Art in literature.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Knowledge--Art.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Knowledge--Italy.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Technique.

Physical Description:

xvii, 285 p., [40] p. of plates : ill.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Focusing on Don Quixote, Frederick A. de Armas unearths links between Cervantes' text and frescoes, paintings, and sculptures by Italian artists such as Cambiaso, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. His study seeks to re-engage the critics of today by formulating the link between Cervantes and the Renaissance through an interdisciplinary dialogue that establishes a new set of models and predecessors. This dialogue is used to explore a variety of issues in Cervantes including the absence of a single guiding pictorial program, the doubling of archaeological reconstruction, and the use of ekphrasis as allusion, interpolation, and an integral component of the action. Quixotic Frescoes delves into the politics of imitation, self-censorship, religious ideology expressed through the pictorial, as well as the gendering of art as reflected in Cervantes' work. This detailed and exhaustive study is an invaluable contribution to both Hispanic and Renaissance studies"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The exhilaration of Italy

A museum of memories : from Numancia to La Galatea

At school with the ancients : Raphael

The fourfold way : Raphael

Textual terribilitá : Michelangelo

The merchants of Trebizond : Luca Cambiaso

Drawing decorum : Titian

Dancing with giants : Philostratus

A mannerist theophany, a cruel Teichoskopia : Pontormo and Parmigianino

Dulcinea and the five maidens : Zeuxis

Love's architecture : Giulio Romano

The last enchantment.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index.

ISBN:

1-4426-5730-8

1-4426-1031-X

1-281-99188-0

9786611991883

1-4426-7896-8

OCLC:

944177634