Patricia Emison

The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Patricia Emison recalibrates our view of the Renaissance, synthesizing the evolution of the concept since the beginnings of art history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781107005266
• ISBN-10: 1107005264
• Artikelnr.: 33269380

Autorenporträt

Professor at the University of New Hampshire, Patricia Emison is the author, most recently, of 'Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History' (Amsterdam University Press), 2021, as well as 'The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory' (Cambridge University Press, 2012), 'The Shaping of Art History: Meditations on a Discipline' (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008), and 'Creating the "Divine" Artist from Dante to Michelangelo' (Brill, 2004). She has also written articles, catalogue entries, and chapters on topics ranging from Renaissance prints to aura in the digital age. She has long taught both an interdisciplinary humanities survey and an art history survey, as well as a course on writings about the history of art, all to undergraduates, and this book is based on that experience.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. A historiographical overview
3. Not only rebirth
4. Truth and likeness
5. Visualizing ideas
6. Why did the high Renaissance happen?
7. Revolutionary norms of beauty
8. 'Genius'
9. Epilogue.