Author: Ita Mac Carthy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069118979X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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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.
Author: Paolo Sanvito
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311042228X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Vitruvius' De architectura, the only extant work from Antiquity dedicated to Architecture, has had a rich and diverse reception history. The present volume aims to highlight the different aspects of this history, showing how Vitruvius' work was systematically and continuously misunderstood to justify innovation. Its comprehensive and in-depth analyses make this book a reference work in the field of Vitruvian scholarship.
Author: Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Author: ItaMac Carthy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351551493
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Certain words played a crucial role in the making of the European Renaissance, and still recur today in our shifting understanding of it. Discretion and grace, to take two examples studied here, express how individuals thought about themselves, each other and their experience of the world, yet they are as hard to define as they are ever-present in Renaissance discourse. In this collection of essays, scholars from across the Humanities offer new interpretations of these and other 'keywords', to adopt Raymond Williams's term, and investigate the vocabulary that not only accompanied, but also produced, the cultural transformations that made the Renaissance so distinctive. A keywords approach to Renaissance Europe provides a rich contextual framework for the exploration of its central ideas. It also highlights the need for fresh thinking on current histories of the age. Seven Renaissance Keywords engages with the ongoing debate about the term 'Renaissance' itself, perhaps more our keyword than theirs, and seeks alternative ways to understand a culture and society which produced conceptions of the self as much as it did art and science. The result is an exploration at the cutting edge of contemporary research. Ita Mac Carthy is Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Author: Elaine Fantham
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199263159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore offers a wide introduction to Cicero's political and cultural world, and illustrates, by its analysis of his imaginary dialogue between statesmen, how he introduced the principles of Greek philosophy and rhetoric into Roman education, so that his work became the basis of humanist ideals in the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
Author: Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee
Publisher:
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Author: Webb
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Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Author: Pliny (the Elder.)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Author: Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Author: Julius Sillig
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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