From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance - Hardcover

Rowland, Ingrid D.

 
9781590171233: From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

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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