Meredith J. Gill (College Park University of Maryland)

Angels and the Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the portrayal of angels across time, identifying their distinctive habitats and attributes, considering new perspectives on heaven and the afterlife, theories about visible and invisible worlds, and the differences between human and divine beings. It focuses on Italy and painting, including well- and lesser-known single works and fresco cycles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 463
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 178mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 962g
• ISBN-13: 9781107027954
• ISBN-10: 1107027950
• Artikelnr.: 40602445

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Pure act: medieval angelology and Dante's angels
2. Wings: celestial visions in the later middle ages and Renaissance
3. Bodies and voices: annunciation and heavenly harmonies
4. Contemplation: angelic witness and empathy
5. Clouds and the fall: rebellion, salvation, and reform.