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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2006-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047408748 |
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This collection of original essays, gathered in honor of distinguished historian Ronald G. Witt, explores a range of issues of interest to scholars of Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. Contributors include Robert Black, Melissa Bullard, Anthony D'Elia, Anthony Grafton, Paul Grendler, James Hankins, John Headley, John Monfasani, and Louise Rice.
Author | : Marieke J.E. van den Doel |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2021-12-13 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9004459685 |
Download Ficino and Fantasy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? This book starts with an exploration of Ficino’s views on the imagination and discusses whether, how and why these ideas may have been received in Italian Renaissance works of art.
Author | : Subrata Dasgupta |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2021-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000514900 |
Download The Renaissance Considered as a Creative Phenomenon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
By using the fresh investigative language of cognitive history, a symbiosis of the methods of cognitive science and historical inquiry, this book departs from almost all previous approaches to Renaissance studies. The Renaissance has attracted the attention of distinguished scholars from many different vantage points – political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural. In this volume, Subrata Dasgupta sheds an alternative light on the Renaissance by considering it as a creative phenomenon. To be creative is to make history by producing material and/or abstract artifacts that are both new and consequential; to be creative also entails drawing on history and on the culture of the time. Most significantly, the creative process occurs in individual minds: it is a cognitive process of a very special kind. Beginning with a ‘prehistory’ set in classical Greece and medieval Islam, this book explores a variety of inventions and discoveries through the 14th–16th centuries, mainly in Italy, in humanities, painting, architecture, craft technology, anatomy, natural science, and engineering. This book will be of interest not only to Renaissance scholars but also to students interested in Renaissance history and the nature of the creative tradition.
Author | : John Stephens |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2014-06-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317871340 |
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In this fascinating study, John Stephens inteprets the significance of the immense cultural change which took place in Italy from the time of Petrarch to the Reformation, and considers its wider contribution to Europe beyond the Alps. His important analysis (which is designed for students and serious general readers of history as well as the specialist) is not a straight narrative history; rather, it is an examination of the humanists, artists and patrons who were the instruments of this change; the contemporary factors that favoured it; and the elements of ancient thought they revived.
Author | : Charles G. Nauert |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 2006-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521839092 |
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The updated second edition of a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the Renaissance.
Author | : Susan B. Puett |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2016-08-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0271091320 |
Download Renaissance Art & Science @ Florence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The creativity of the human mind was brilliantly displayed during the Florentine Renaissance when artists, mathematicians, astronomers, apothecaries, architects, and others embraced the interconnectedness of their disciplines. Artists used mathematical perspective in painting and scientific techniques to create new materials; hospitals used art to invigorate the soul; apothecaries prepared and dispensed, often from the same plants, both medicinals for patients and pigments for painters; utilitarian glassware and maps became objects to be admired for their beauty; art enhanced depictions of scientific observations; and innovations in construction made buildings canvases for artistic grandeur. An exploration of these and other intersections of art and science deepens our appreciation of the magnificent contributions of the extraordinary Florentines.
Author | : Alejandro Coroleu |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014-06-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443861057 |
Download Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With the advent of the printing press throughout Europe in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the key Latin texts of Italian humanism began to be published outside Italy, most of them by a small group of printers who, in most cases, worked in close collaboration with lecturers and teachers. This study provides the first comprehensive account of the dissemination of this important literary corpus in Spain, France, the Low Countries and the German-speaking world between ca. 1470 and ca. 1540. By combining an examination of book production and consumption with attention to the educational system of Renaissance Europe, this book highlights both the historical significance of the Latin literature of Italian humanism within the school and university curriculum of the time, and the impact of such a body of texts on the rising national literary traditions, in Latin and in the vernacular, of the period. Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe will appeal to scholars of classical and Renaissance literature, and to anyone interested in intellectual history and in the history of education in the Renaissance. It will be of particular interest to scholars in Hispanic studies.
Author | : Amy R. Bloch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1088 |
Release | : 2016-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131640465X |
Download Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the heretofore unsuspected complexity of Lorenzo Ghiberti's sculpted representations of Old Testament narratives in his Gates of Paradise (1425–52), the second set of doors he made for the Florence Baptistery and a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture. One of the most intellectually engaged and well-read artists of his age, Ghiberti found inspiration in ancient and medieval texts, many of which he and his contacts in Florence's humanist community shared, read, and discussed. He was fascinated by the science of vision, by the functioning of nature, and, above all, by the origins and history of art. These unusually well-defined intellectual interests, reflected in his famous Commentaries, shaped his approach in the Gates. Through the selection, imaginative interpretation, and arrangement of biblical episodes, Ghiberti fashioned multi-textured narratives that explore the human condition and express his ideas on a range of social, political, artistic, and philosophical issues.
Author | : Charles G. Nauert (Jr.) |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1995-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521407243 |
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This new textbook provides students with a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the European Renaissance, one of the most influential cultural revolutions in history. Professor Nauert's approach is broader than the traditional focus on Italy, and tackles the themes in the wider European context. He traces the origins of the humanist 'movement' and connects it to the social and political environments in which it developed. In a tour-de-force of lucid exposition over six wide-ranging chapters, Nauert charts the key intellectual, social, educational and philosophical concerns of this humanist revolution, using art and biographical sketches of key figures to illuminate the discussion. The study also traces subsequent transformations of humanism and its solvent effect on intellectual developments in the late Renaissance.
Author | : Amy R. Bloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9781316162842 |
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"This book examines the heretofore unsuspected complexity of Lorenzo Ghiberti's sculpted representations of Old Testament narratives in his Gates of Paradise (1425-52), the second set of doors he made for the Florence Baptistery and a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture. One of the most intellectually engaged and well-read artists of his age, Ghiberti found inspiration in ancient and medieval texts, many of which he and his contacts in Florence's humanist community shared, read, and discussed. He was fascinated by the science of vision, by the functioning of nature, and, above all, by the origins and history of art. These unusually well-defined intellectual interests, reflected in his famous Commentaries, shaped his approach in the Gates. Through the selection, imaginative interpretation, and arrangement of biblical episodes, Ghiberti fashioned multi-textured narratives that explore the human condition and express his ideas on a range of social, political, artistic, and philosophical issues"--