<P>The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo, or Michelangelo) created imaginative syntheses between their art and contemporary cosmology, philosophy, theology, and magic.</P><P></P><P>The Neoplatonism in the books by Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola became widely acknowledged for its lasting influence on art. It thus became common knowledge that Renaissance artists were not exclusively concerned with problems intrinsic to their work but that their artifacts encompassed a much larger intellectual and cultural horizon. This volume brings together historians concerned with the history of their own discipline ¿ and also those whose research is on the art and culture of the Italian Renaissance itself ¿ with historians from a wide variety of specialist fields, in order to engage with the contested field of icono
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The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing...
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Venus and the Arts of Love offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300-1600. In the course of deconstructing Venus's trajectory, this book critically examines the materials and techniques that artists...
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"[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language. . . . The most lucid exposition of the subject I have ever read".--Rudolf Arnheim,...
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<P>This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract images as a visual language. </P><P>The contributors demonstrate that abstraction is not primarily an artistic phenomenon,...
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