James Grantham Turner (Berkeley University of California)

The Villa Farnesina

Palace of Venus in Renaissance Rome

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book restores the original vision of the beloved Villa Farnesina-a Palace of Venus celebrating aesthetic, social and erotic pleasure, set among lush gardens with fountains, grotto, pool and banqueting-pavilion, now vanished. It will appeal to in scholars interested in Renaissance art, architecture and history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 285mm x 220mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 2026g
• ISBN-13: 9781316511015
• ISBN-10: 1316511014
• Artikelnr.: 64197291

Autorenporträt

James Grantham Turner is James D. Hart Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. A scholar of unusual range who brings together literature, art, the environment, cultural and intellectual history, and gender and sexuality, he is the author of eight books, including the Politics of Landscape and Eros Visible, the latter cited for its 'extraordinary vitality' and as a 'most important' contribution to Renaissance Studies. Turner has won fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. 'Antique' Imagination and the Creation of the
Villa-Palazzo: Origins and Precursors; 2. The Stanza del Fregio and
Peruzzi's first architectural wall-painting; 3. The Lost Façade-Paintings:
'Di terretta con storie di man sua, molto belle'; 4. 1512 Overtures: The
Villa, the Landscape Architecture and the Literature of Celebration; 5. The
Second Phase, 1518-1519: The 'Hall of Perspectives', the Nuptial Suite and
the Loggia di Psiche.