James Grantham Turner

Villa Farnesina (eBook, ePUB)

Palace of Venus in Renaissance Rome

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The frescoes of Peruzzi, Raphael and Sodoma still dazzle visitors to the Villa Farnesina, but they survive in a stripped-down environment bereft of its landscape, sealed so it cannot breathe. Turner takes you outside that box, restoring these canonical images to their original context, when each element joined in a productive conversation. He is the first to reconstruct the architect-painter Peruzzi's original, well-proportioned, well-appointed building and to re-visualize his lost facade decorationerotic scenes and mythological figures who make it come alive and soar upward. More comprehensively than any previous scholar, he reintegrates painting, sculpture, architecture, garden design, topographical prints and drawings, archaeological discoveries and literature from the brilliant circle around the patron Agostino Chigi, the powerful banker who 'loved all virtuosi' and commissioned his villa-palazzo from the best talents in multiple arts. It can now be understood as a Palace of Venus, celebrating aesthetic, social and erotic pleasure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009041638
• Artikelnr.: 70913263

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.