Federico Botana

Learning Through Images in the Italian Renaissance

Illustrated Manuscripts and Education in Quattrocento Florence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 181mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781108491044
• ISBN-10: 1108491049
• Artikelnr.: 58854967

Autorenporträt

Federico Botana is an art historian who specialises in the art of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy. Previous publications include The Works of Mercy in Italian Medieval Art (2012) and several academic articles on illuminated manuscripts. His main research interest concerns the didactic uses of images, especially manuscript illustrations and mural painting. 

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Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Editorial note
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Two youths
3. Mental images
4. Virtues, sins, and the senses in the fior di virtù
5. Serving the state in the fior di virtù
6. Dealing with others in the esopo volgarizzato
7. The flesh in the fior di virtù and the esopo volgarizzato
8. Mathematics, body, form, and metaphor in libri d'abbaco
9. The cosmos in goro dati's sfera
10. Navigation and geography in the sfera
11. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.