The Culture Of The High Renaissance

Author : Jill Burke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351551113

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Rethinking the High Renaissance by Jill Burke Pdf

The perception that the early sixteenth century saw a culmination of the Renaissance classical revival - only to degrade into mannerism shortly after Raphael's death in 1520 - has been extremely tenacious; but many scholars agree that this tidy narrative is deeply problematic. Exploring how we can reconceptualize the High Renaissance in a way that reflects how we research and teach today, this volume complicates and deepens our understanding of artistic change. Focusing on Rome, the paradigmatic centre of the High Renaissance narrative, each essay presents a case study of a particular aspect of the culture of the city in the early sixteenth century, including new analyses of Raphael's stanze, Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and the architectural designs of Bramante. The contributors question notions of periodization, reconsider the Renaissance relationship with classical antiquity, and ultimately reconfigure our understanding of 'high Renaissance style'.

Author : Ingrid D. Rowland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0251794415

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The Culture of High Renaissance by Ingrid D. Rowland Pdf

Author : Ingrid D. Rowland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521794412

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The Culture of the High Renaissance by Ingrid D. Rowland Pdf

Between 1480 and 1520, a concentration of talented artists, including Melozzo da Forlì, Bramante, Pinturicchio, Raphael, and Michelangelo, arrived in Rome and produced some of the most enduring works of art ever created. This period, now called the High Renaissance, is generally considered to be one of the high points of Western civilisation. How did it come about, and what were the forces that converged to spark such an explosion of creative activity? In this study, Ingrid Rowland examines the culture, society, and intellectual norms that generated the High Renaissance. This interdisciplinary 2001 study assesses the intellectual paradigm shift that occurred at the turn of the fifteenth century. It also finds and explains the connections between ideas, people, and the art works they created by looking at economics, art, contemporary understanding of classical antiquity, and social conventions.

Author : Ingrid Rowland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1419332334

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The Culture of the High Renaissance by Ingrid Rowland Pdf

Author : Ingrid Drake Rowland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Arts, Italian
ISBN : OCLC:1341819086

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The Culture of the High Renaissance by Ingrid Drake Rowland Pdf

Author : Jill Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1315088770

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Rethinking the High Renaissance by Jill Burke Pdf

"The perception that the early sixteenth century saw a culmination of the Renaissance classical revival - only to degrade into mannerism shortly after Raphael's death in 1520 - has been extremely tenacious; but many scholars agree that this tidy narrative is deeply problematic. Exploring how we can reconceptualize the High Renaissance in a way that reflects how we research and teach today, this volume complicates and deepens our understanding of artistic change. Focusing on Rome, the paradigmatic centre of the High Renaissance narrative, each essay presents a case study of a particular aspect of the culture of the city in the early sixteenth century, including new analyses of Raphael's stanze, Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and the architectural designs of Bramante. The contributors question notions of periodization, reconsider the Renaissance relationship with classical antiquity, and ultimately reconfigure our understanding of 'high Renaissance style'."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Charles G. Nauert (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521407249

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Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe by Charles G. Nauert (Jr.) Pdf

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 : George L. Hersey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226327822

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High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican by George L. Hersey Pdf

Michelangelo, Raphael, Bramante—together these artists created some of the most glorious treasures of the Vatican, viewed daily by thousands of tourists. But how many visitors understand the way these artworks reflect the passions, dreams, and struggles of the popes who commissioned them? For anyone making an artistic pilgrimage to the High Renaissance splendors of the Vatican, George L. Hersey's book is the ideal guide. Before starting the tour of individual works, Hersey describes how the treacherously shifting political and religious alliances of sixteenth-century Italy, France, and Spain played themselves out in the Eternal City. He offers vivid accounts of the lives and personalities of four popes, each a great patron of art and architecture: Julius II, Leo X, Clement VII, and Paul III. He also tells of the complicated rebuilding and expanding of St. Peter's, a project in which Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo all took part. Having set the historical scene, Hersey then explores the Vatican's magnificent Renaissance art and architecture. In separate chapters, organized spatially, he leads the reader through the Cortile del Belvedere and Vatican Museums, with their impressive holdings of statuary and paintings; the richly decorated Stanze and Logge of Raphael; and Michelangelo's Last Judgment and newly cleaned Sistine Chapel ceiling. A fascinating final chapter entitled "The Tragedy of the Tomb" recounts the vicissitudes of Michelangelo's projected funeral monument to Julius II. Hersey is never content to simply identify the subject of a painting or sculpture. He gives us the story behind the works, telling us what their particular themes signified at the time for the artist, the papacy, and the Church. He also indicates how the art was received by contemporaries and viewed by later generations. Generously illustrated and complete with a useful chronology, High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican is a valuable reference for any traveler to Rome or lover of Italian art who has yearned for a single-volume work more informative and stimulating than ordinary guidebooks. At the same time, Hersey's many anecdotes and intriguing comparisons with works outside the Vatican will provide new insights even for specialists.

Author : Ariane Ruskin Batterberry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Art, High Renaissance
ISBN : UCSD:31822032248593

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Art of the High Renaissance by Ariane Ruskin Batterberry Pdf

A survey, illustrated by representative works, of the major developments in art and architecture during the latter half of the 15th and the first half of the 16th centuries.

Author : Patricia Emison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136523434

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Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art by Patricia Emison Pdf

During the later 15th and in the 16th centuries pictures began to be made without action, without place for heroism, pictures more rueful than celebratory. In part, Renaissance art adjusted to the social and economic pressures with an art we may be hard pressed to recognize under that same rubric-an art not so much of perfected nature as simply artless. Granted, the heroic and epic mode of the Renaissance was that practiced most self-consciously and proudly. Yet it is one of the accomplishments of Renaissance art that heroic and epic subjects and style occasionally made way for less affirmative subjects and compositional norms, for improvisation away from the Vitruvian ideal. The limits of idealizing art, during the very period denominated as High Renaissance, is a topic that involves us in the history of class prejudice, of gender stereotypes, of the conceptualization of the present, of attitudes toward the ordinary, and of scruples about the power of sight Exploring the low style leads us particularly to works of art intended for display in private settings as personally owned objects, potentially as signs of quite personal emotions rather than as subscriptions to publicly vaunted ideologies. Not all of them show shepherds or peasants; none of them-not even Giorgione's La tempesta -is a classic pastoral idyll. The rosso stile is to be understood as more comprehensive than that. The issue is not only who is represented, but whether the work can or cannot be fit into the mold of a basically affirmative art.

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892367856

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Luxury Arts of the Renaissance by Marina Belozerskaya Pdf

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Author : Douglas Biow
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501726842

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The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy by Douglas Biow Pdf

Concerned about sanitation during a severe bout of plague in Milan, Leonardo da Vinci designed an ideal, clean city. Leonardo was far from alone among his contemporaries in thinking about personal and public hygiene, as Douglas Biow shows in The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy. A concern for cleanliness, he argues, was everywhere in the Renaissance.Anxieties about cleanliness were expressed in literature from humanist panegyrics to bawdy carnival songs, as well as in the visual arts. Biow surveys them all to explain why the topic so permeated Renaissance culture. At one level, cleanliness, he documents, was a matter of real concern in the Renaissance. At another, he finds, issues such as human dignity, self-respect, self-discipline, social distinction, and originality were rethought as a matter of artistic concern.The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy moves from the clean to the unclean, from the lofty to the base. Biow first examines the socially elevated, who defined and distinguished themselves as clean, pure, and polite. He then turns to soap, an increasingly common commodity in this period, and the figure of the washerwoman. Finally he focuses on latrines, which were universally scorned yet functioned artistically as figures of baseness, creativity, and fun in the works of Dante and Boccaccio. Paralleling this social stratification is a hierarchy of literary and visual artifacts, from the discourse of high humanism to filthy curses and scatological songs. Deftly bringing together high and low-as well as literary and visual-cultures, this book provides a fresh perspective on the Italian Renaissance and its artistic legacy.

Author : Loren Partridge,Randolph Starn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520371149

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A Renaissance Likeness by Loren Partridge,Randolph Starn Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Author : Christopher F. Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015049540381

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Cultural Atlas of the Renaissance by Christopher F. Black Pdf

Summary: A highly readable account of the history and culture of the Renaissance from its origins in Italy to its spread through Europe and beyond.

Author : Bosiljka Raditsa
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art, Renaissance
ISBN : 9780870999536

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The Art of Renaissance Europe by Bosiljka Raditsa Pdf

Works in the Museum's collection that embody the Renaissance interest in classical learning, fame, and beautiful objects are illustrated and discussed in this resource and will help educators introduce the richness and diversity of Renaissance art to their students. Primary source texts explore the great cities and powerful personalities of the age. By studying gesture and narrative, students can work as Renaissance artists did when they created paintings and drawings. Learning about perspective, students explore the era's interest in science and mathematics. Through projects based on poetic forms of the time, students write about their responses to art. The activities and lesson plans are designed for a variety of classroom needs and can be adapted to a specific curriculum as well as used for independent study. The resource also includes a bibliography and glossary.