Item Number: 114869 Title: Rethinking the High Renaissance : The Culture of the Visual Arts in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome Author: Burke, Jill (ed) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781409425588 Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. 24cm., hardcover, 402pp., 84 b&w illus. Contents: Preface; Inventing the High Renaissance from Winckelmann to Wikipedia: an introductory essay, Jill Burke; Part I Vantage Points: Teaching (and thinking about) the High Renaissance, with some observations on its relationship to Classical Antiquity, Brian A. Curran; Figments and fragments: Julius II's Rome, Suzanne B. Butters; Humanists, historians and the fullness of time in Renaissance Rome, Kenneth Gouwens; Cellini's Roma, Gwendolyn Trottein; On the unity/disunity of the arts: Vasari (and others) on architecture, David Cast. Part II Making the High Renaissance: Classicism, Conflation and Culmination: Bramante and the origins of the 'High Renaissance', Christoph Luitpold Frommel; Classical mistranslations: the absence of a modular system in Calvo's De Architectura, Angeliki Pollali; Giuliano da Sangallo between Florentine Quattrocento and Roman High Renaissance, Sabine Frommel; Perugino, Raphael and the decoration of the Stanza dell'Incendio, Michael Bury; Forgery, faith and divine hierarchy after Lorenzo Valla, Meredith J. Gill; The conception and design of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling: 'wishing to shed a little light upon the whole rather than mentioning the parts', David Hemsoll; Pope Clement VII and the decorum of medieval art, Sheryl E. Reiss. (Visual Culture in Early Modernity) We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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