Angels and the Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance Italy - Hardcover

Meredith J. Gill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107027950 ISBN 13: 9781107027954

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This book examines the role of angels in medieval and Renaissance art and religion from Dante to the Counter-Reformation.

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About the Author

Meredith J. Gill is Professor of Italian Renaissance Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Augustine in the Italian Renaissance: Art and Philosophy from Petrarch to Michelangelo (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and co-editor, with Karla Pollmann, of Augustine Beyond the Book: Intermediality, Transmediality and Reception. Among her other publications are articles in Renaissance Quarterly, Storia dell'Arte, and Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, and essays in Rethinking the High Renaissance: The Culture of the Visual Arts in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome; The Possessions of a Cardinal: Politics, Piety, and Art, 1450–1700; The Renaissance World; and Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She has been a fellow at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and the National Humanities Center, and the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107027950
• ISBN 13: 9781107027954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432