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A collection of essays on Renaissance art and culture covers the careers and work of Caravaggio, Corrieggio, Botticelli, Titian, Leonardo, and many others, exploring themes of eroticism and sexuality in literature as well as the Renaissance fascination with ancient Egypt.
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Ingrid D. Rowland is Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the American Academy in Rome.
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has also published a translation of Vitruvius’ Ten Books of Architecture and a history of Villa Taverna, the US ambassador’s residence in Rome.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xxv, 294 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light soiling. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "From the revelations of classical statuary pulled from the Roman soil as the popes began rebuilding the city in the fifteenth century, to the myth of serenity that Venice constructed to conceal its physical and political fragility, to bloody yet cultured Florence under the Medici, Ingrid Rowland traces the worldly, unworldly, and otherworldly strivings of artists, writers, popes, and politicians during that great 'outburst of mental energy' we know as the Renaissance. Here are Botticelli, whose illustrations for the Divine Comedy reveal him to be one of Dante's most careful readers; the multifaceted genius of Leonardo; the astonishing mastery of Titian and the erratic brilliance of artists like Correggio, Caravaggio, and Artemisia Gentileschi; the enigmatic erotic novel Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; the Western fascination with the mysteries of Egypt; and the glittering spiritual ferment of late Byzantium, which as it collapsed passed on so many ideas to Renaissance Italy. But beyond its artistic accomplishments, Rowland writes, 'Renaissance life at its most distinctive was the intangible, unworldly life of the mind.' In her pages astronomers and astrologists, poets and philosophers, pornographers and prostitutes jostle for attention with painters and sculptors. Among them the inquisitive Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher stands out as a polymath who ranged over nearly every field of knowledge. Even though his commingling of scientific observation and hermetic symbolism is now obsolete, he remains for Rowland 'a builder of connections who insisted on seeing harmony in the midst of disorder'--and thus one of the most exemplary Renaissance figures of all." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 220023
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