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The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome

Door Ingrid D. Rowland

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#329894-VA35
Titel
The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome
Auteur
Rowland, Ingrid D.
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1998
ISBN10
0521581451
ISBN13
9780521581455
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Orignal gilt lettered red cloth, dust jacket, illustrated in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting

Between 1480 and 1520, a concentration of talented artists, including Melozzo da Forli, 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 crea
... (Lees verder)ted by looking at economics, art, contemporary understanding of classical antiquity, and social conventions.
Pagina's
384
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 25,00

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