Format:
1 online resource (362 pages)
ISBN:
9789004447776
Series Statement:
Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History Ser.
Content:
A team of specialists addresses a foundational concept as central to early modern thinking as to our own: that the past is always an important part of the present.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Brian Curran, Past, Present, Place -- Chapter 1 Horrors and Heroes, Renaissance and Recent: Rome as Architecture School -- Chapter 2 Michelangelo's Columns -- Chapter 3 Allegory, Antiquities, and a Gothic Apollo: Queen Christina of Sweden and the Manufacture of Cultural Identity -- Chapter 4 The Atlantic Visions of Giorgio Grognet de Vassé (1774-1862), Maltese Forger, Architect, and Antiquarian -- Chapter 5 Drawing the Elephant: On the Natures of Naturalism before and in the Cinquecento -- Chapter 6 A Faun in Love: The Visual Sources -- Chapter 7 Marco del Buono Giamberti's 1478 Testament and New Evidence about Paolo Uccello -- Chapter 8 The Architecture of Civic Virtue in Donatello's Saint George and the Dragon -- Chapter 9 American Bodies, Aztec Feathers, and Artistic Invention in Sixteenth-Century Europe -- Chapter 10 Cafà's Saint Rose of Lima as Effigy -- Chapter 11 Gardens, Air, and the Healing Power of Green in Early Modern Rome -- Chapter 12 The Guglie of Naples and the Visual Rhetoric of Height -- Chapter 13 Nicola Michetti's Facade of the Palazzo Colonna in Rome (1731-1735) -- Tabula in Memoriam -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004391529
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004391529
Language:
English
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