The Pagan Dream Of The Renaissance
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The Pagan Dream Of The Renaissance
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Author : Joscelyn Godwin
language : en
Publisher: Weiser Books
Release Date : 2005-02-10
The Pagan Dream Of The Renaissance written by Joscelyn Godwin and has been published by Weiser Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-10 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance recounts the almost untold story of how the rediscovery of the pagan, mythological imagination during the Renaissance brought a profound transformation to European culture. This highly illustrated book, available for the first time in paperback, shows that the pagan imagination existed side-by-side -- often uneasily -- with the official symbols, doctrines, and art of the Church. Godwin carefully documents how pagan themes and gods enhanced both public and private life. Palaces and villas were decorated with mythological images/ stories, music, and dramatic pageants were written about pagan themes/ and landscapes were designed to transform the soul. This was a time of great social and cultural change, when the pagan idea represented nostalgia for a classical world untroubled by the idea of sin and in no need of redemption.A stunning book with hundreds of photos that bring alive this period with all its rich conflict between Christianity and classicism.
The Renewal Of Pagan Antiquity
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Author : Aby Warburg
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 1999
The Renewal Of Pagan Antiquity written by Aby Warburg and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art, Renaissance categories.
A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.
Pagan Virtue In A Christian World
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Author : Anthony F. D'Elia
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-04
Pagan Virtue In A Christian World written by Anthony F. D'Elia and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-04 with History categories.
In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, damning a living man to an afterlife of torment. What had Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts, done to merit this fate? Anthony D’Elia shows how the recovery of classical literature and art during the Italian Renaissance led to a revival of paganism.
Pagan Mysteries In The Renaissance
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Author : Edgar Wind
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Pagan Mysteries In The Renaissance written by Edgar Wind and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with categories.
The Survival Of The Pagan Gods
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Author : Jean Seznec
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1995
The Survival Of The Pagan Gods written by Jean Seznec and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Art categories.
The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity - or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book, now reprinted in a new, larger paperback format, offers the general reader a multifaceted look at the far-reaching role played by mythology in Renaissance intellectual and emotional life. After a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, Jean Seznec traces the fate of the gods from Botticelli and Raphael to their function and appearance in Ronsard's verses and Ben Jonson's masques.
Locations Of Knowledge In Medieval And Early Modern Europe
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Author : Kocku Von Stuckrad
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010
Locations Of Knowledge In Medieval And Early Modern Europe written by Kocku Von Stuckrad and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Addressing discourses of perfect knowledge in Western culture between 1200 and 1800, this book integrates the study of Western esotericism in a larger analytical framework of European history of religion.
Mysteriously Meant
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Author : Don Cameron Allen
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2020-02-03
Mysteriously Meant written by Don Cameron Allen and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Originally published in 1971. In Mysteriously Meant, Professor Allen maps the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance as he explains the discovery of an allegorical interpretation of Greek, Latin, and finally Egyptian myths and the effect this discovery had on the development of modern attitudes toward myth. He believes that to understand Renaissance literature one must understand the interpretations of classical myth known to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In unraveling the elusive strands of myth, allegory, and symbol from the fabric of Renaissance literature such as Milton's Paradise Lost, Allen is a helpful guide. His discussion of Renaissance authors is as authoritative as it is inclusive. His empathy with the scholars of the Renaissance keeps his discussion lively—a witty study of interpreters of mythography from the past.
Rethinking The High Renaissance
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Author : Jill Burke
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Rethinking The High Renaissance written by Jill Burke and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.
The perception that the early sixteenth century saw a culmination of the Renaissance classical revival - only to degrade into mannerism shortly after Raphael's death in 1520 - has been extremely tenacious; but many scholars agree that this tidy narrative is deeply problematic. Exploring how we can reconceptualize the High Renaissance in a way that reflects how we research and teach today, this volume complicates and deepens our understanding of artistic change. Focusing on Rome, the paradigmatic centre of the High Renaissance narrative, each essay presents a case study of a particular aspect of the culture of the city in the early sixteenth century, including new analyses of Raphael's stanze, Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and the architectural designs of Bramante. The contributors question notions of periodization, reconsider the Renaissance relationship with classical antiquity, and ultimately reconfigure our understanding of 'high Renaissance style'.
The Philosophy Of Gemistos Plethon
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Author : Vojt?ch Hladký
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
The Philosophy Of Gemistos Plethon written by Vojt?ch Hladký and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with History categories.
George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1360-1454) was a remarkable and influential thinker, active at the time of transition between the Byzantine Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. His works cover literary, historical, scientific, but most notably philosophical issues. Plethon is arguably the most important of the Byzantine Platonists and the earliest representative of Platonism in the Renaissance, the movement which generally exercised a huge influence on the development of early modern thought. Thus his treatise on the differences between Plato and Aristotle triggered the Plato-Aristotle controversy of the 15th century, and his ideas impacted on Italian Renaissance thinkers such as Ficino. This book provides a new study of Gemistos’ philosophy. The first part is dedicated to the discussion of his 'public philosophy'. As an important public figure, Gemistos wrote several public speeches concerning the political situation in the Peloponnese as well as funeral orations on deceased members of the ruling Palaiologos family. They contain remarkable Platonic ideas, adjusted to the contemporary late Byzantine situation. In the second, most extensive, part of the book the Platonism of Plethon is presented in a systematic way. It is identical with the so-called philosophia perennis, that is, the rational view of the world common to various places and ages. Throughout Plethon’s writings, it is remarkably coherent in its framework, possesses quite original features, and displays the influence of ancient Middle and Neo-Platonic discussions. Plethon thus turns out to be not just a commentator on an ancient tradition, but an original Platonic thinker in his own right. In the third part the notorious question of the paganism of Gemistos is reconsidered. He is usually taken for a Platonizing polytheist who gathered around himself a kind of heterodox circle. The whole issue is examined in depth again and all the major evidence discussed, with the result that Gemistos seems rat
Receptions Of Antiquity Constructions Of Gender In European Art 1300 1600
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Author : Marice Rose
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-06-24
Receptions Of Antiquity Constructions Of Gender In European Art 1300 1600 written by Marice Rose and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-24 with Art categories.
Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 examines the way in which late medieval and early modern visual culture engaged with Greek and Roman antiquity to construct and challenge contemporary gender norms.