[PDF] The Mythological Origins Of Renaissance Florence eBook

Author : Irina Chernetsky
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2022
Category : ART
ISBN : 9781009018838

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"In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted Florence as the reincarnation of the great cities of pagan and Christian antiquity - Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. The architectural image of an ideal Florence was discussed in chronicles and histories, poetry and prose, and treatises on art and religious sermons. It was also portrayed in paintings, sculpture, and sketches, as well as encoded in buildings erected during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Over time, the concept of an ideal Florence became inseparable from the real city, in both its social and architectural structures. Chernetsky demonstrates how the Renaissance notion of genealogy was applied to Florence, which was considered to be part of a family of illustrious cities of both the past and present. She also explores the concept of the ideal city in its intellectual, political, and aesthetic contexts, while offering new insights into the experience of urban space"--

Author : Irina Chernetsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1009041282

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In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted Florence as the reincarnation of the great cities of pagan and Christian antiquity – Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. The architectural image of an ideal Florence was discussed in chronicles and histories, poetry and prose, and treatises on art and religious sermons. It was also portrayed in paintings, sculpture, and sketches, as well as encoded in buildings erected during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Over time, the concept of an ideal Florence became inseparable from the real city, in both its social and architectural structures. Chernetsky demonstrates how the Renaissance notion of genealogy was applied to Florence, which was considered to be part of a family of illustrious cities of both the past and present. She also explores the concept of the ideal city in its intellectual, political, and aesthetic contexts, while offering new insights into the experience of urban space.

Author : Gene Brucker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 1983-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0520046951

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In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the city's physical character, its economic and social structure and developments, its political and religious life, and its cultural achievement. For this edition, Mr. Brucker has added Notes on Florentine Scholarship and a Bibliographical Supplement.

Author : Richard A. Goldthwaite
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 1982-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801829772

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Patrons - The Guilds - Strozzi family - Succhielli family.

Author : Gene A. Brucker
Publisher : Krieger Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN :

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In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the city's physical character, its economic and social structure and developments, its political and religious life, and its cultural achievement. For this edition, Mr. Brucker has added "Notes on Florentine Scholarship" and a "Bibliographical Supplement."

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Publisher : Giunti Editore
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788809013490

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Arte, politica, vita quotidiana nella culla del Rinascimento italiano. Dallo splendore dei Medici ai grandi maestri d'arte quali Botticelli, Michelangelo e Leonardo, il ritratto, interamente in inglese, di una città che ha cambiato la storia del mondo: Firenze.

Author : Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781890482848

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Describes the revival of interest in the pagan, mythological imagination during the Renaissance, the influence on the arts of imagery based on classical mythology, and the troubled co-existence of this pagan culture with official Christianity.

Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2006-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0199884307

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A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Girolamo Savonarola. Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship have made him one of the most admired historians of Renaissance Italy, here provides a remarkably fresh perspective on Savonarola, the preacher and agitator who flamed like a comet through late fifteenth-century Florence. The Dominican friar has long been portrayed as a dour, puritanical demagogue who urged his followers to burn their worldly goods in "the bonfire of the vanities." But as Martines shows, this is a caricature of the truth--the version propagated by the wealthy and powerful who feared the political reforms he represented. Here, Savonarola emerges as a complex and subtle man, both a religious and a civic leader--who inspired an outpouring of political debate in a city newly freed from the tyranny of the Medici. In the end, the volatile passions he unleashed--and the powerful families he threatened--sent the friar to his own fiery death. But the fusion of morality and politics that he represented would leave a lasting mark on Renaissance Florence. For the many readers fascinated by histories of Renaissance Italy--such as Brunelleschi's Dome or Galileo's Daughter, and Martines's acclaimed April Blood--Fire in the City offers a vivid portrait of one of the most memorable characters from that dazzling era.