Green Worlds in Early Modern Italy : Art and the Verdant Earth /

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The green mantle of the earth! This metaphor conceives of the vegetation of the earth as a green cloth that drapes the barren earth. Long popular in patristic literature Il mantello verde della terra is a poetical image that ponders the providential greening of the earth on the third day of the Crea...

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Otros Autores: Barolsky, Paul (Contribuidor), Compton, Rebekah (Contribuidor), Goodchild, Karen Hope (Editor ), Goodchild, Karen (Contribuidor), Holberton, Paul (Contribuidor), Hope Goodchild, Karen (Contribuidor), Nonaka, Natsumi (Contribuidor), Oettinger, April (Contribuidor, Editor ), Pederson, Jill (Contribuidor), Peinelt-Schmidt, Sabine (Contribuidor), Prosperetti, Leopoldine (Contribuidor, Editor ), Russell, Susan (Contribuidor), Tosini, Patrizia (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Colección:Visual and Material Culture, 1300 -1700 ; 11
Temas:
Art and Material Culture.
Cultural Studies.
Early Modern Studies.
History, Art History, and Archaeology.
ART / History / Renaissance.
Renaissance landscape, Italian Renaissance painting, ornament in Renaissance art, cultural history of green, the pastoral.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Plates and Figures
  • Introduction: A Fresh Vision of the Natural World in Renaissance Italy
  • Part I. Devotional Viridescence
  • 1. The Green Places of Fra Filippo Lippi and Sandro Botticelli
  • 2. Anthropomorphic Trees and Animated Nature in Lorenzo Lotto's 1509 St. Jerome
  • 3. 'Honesta voluptas': the Renaissance Justification for Enjoyment of the Natural World
  • Part II. Building Green
  • 4. "The Sala delle Asse as Locus amoenus: Revisiting Leonardo da Vinci's Arboreal Imagery in Milan's Castello Sforzesco"
  • 5. Naturalism and Antiquity, Redefined, in Vasari's Verzure
  • 6. Verdant Architecture and Tripartite Chorography: Toeput and the Italian Villa Tradition
  • Part III. The Sylvan Exchange
  • 7. Titian: Sylvan Poet
  • 8. From Venice to Tivoli: Girolamo Muziano and the 'Invention' of the Tiburtine Landscape
  • 9. Of Oak and Elder, Cloud-like Angels, and a Bird's Nest: The Graphic Interpretations of Titian's The Death of St. Peter Martyr by Martino Rota, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Valentin Lefebre, John Baptist Jackson, and their Successors
  • 10. The Verdant as Violence: The Storm Landscapes of Herman van Swanevelt and Gaspard Dughet
  • Afterword: A Brief Journey through the Green World of Renaissance Italy
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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