The Grace of the Italian Renaissance / Ita Mac Carthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mac Carthy, Ita, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italy--Intellectual life--1268-1559.

Italy.

Grace (Aesthetics).

Grace (Theology).

Graces, The.

Language and culture--Italy--History.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"Grace" emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic concerns of an age concerned with the reactivation of ancient ideas in a changing world. The book reassesses artists such as Francesco del Cossa, Raphael and Michelangelo and explores anew writers like Castiglione, Ariosto, Tullia d'Aragona and Vittoria Colonna. It shows how these artists and writers put grace at the heart of their work.Grace, Ita Mac Carthy argues, came to be as contested as it was prized across a range of Renaissance Italian contexts. It characterised emerging styles in literature and the visual arts, shaped ideas about how best to behave at court and sparked controversy about social harmony and human salvation. For all these reasons, grace abounded in the Italian Renaissance, yet it remained hard to define. Mac Carthy explores what grace meant to theologians, artists, writers and philosophers, showing how it influenced their thinking about themselves, each other and the world.Ambitiously conceived and elegantly written, this book portrays grace not as a stable formula of expression but as a web of interventions in culture and society.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prologue. Three Graces

Chapter 1. A Renaissance Keyword

Chapter 2. Grace Abounding: Four Contexts

Chapter 3. Grace and Favour: Baldassare Castiglione and Raphael

Chapter 4. Grace and Beauty: Vittoria Colonna and Tullia d'Aragona

Chapter 5. Grace and Ingratitude: Lodovico Dolce and Ludovico Ariosto

Chapter 6. Grace and Labour: Michelangelo Buonarroti and Vittoria Colonna

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-691-18979-X

OCLC:

1127952589