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The spiritual language of art : medieval Christian themes in writings on art of the Italian Renaissance /
Analyzing the literature on art from the Italian Renaissance, The Spiritual Language of Art explores the complex relationship between visual art and spirituality by revealing that terms, concepts and metaphors derived from spiritual literature were consistently used to discuss art.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
2014.
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| Colección: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;
v. 86. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Art and Compunction: Francesco Bocchi's Mystical Experience of Art; Compunction in Renaissance Literature on Art; Compunction and Popular Devotion at the Santissima Annunziata in Florence; Francesco Bocchi's Ekphrasis, Catharsis and Compunction; Purging and Nourishing; Chapter 2 Leon Battista Alberti's 'De pictura' and the Christian Tradition of the Liberal Arts; An Image Formed in the Mind and an Imitation of Nature; The Liberal Arts in Alberti and the Christian Tradition.
- Study and Composition: Painting as a Form of MeditationA Part and a Whole: Alberti's Beauty; Chapter 3 The Word of God and the Book of the World in the Writings of Leonardo da Vinci; Leonardo as a Reader of Spiritual Literature; Tears and Laughter in Leonardo; The World Is a Book; Judgment and Love: Ogni Dipintore Dipinge Se; In One Instant Alone; Chapter 4 Imagining the Souls of Holy People; Part One; Lifting the Veil of the Body; The Soul of a Work of Art: The Agency of Sacred Art; The Sweetness of Honey: Painted Flesh, Veils and Interiority.
- Perfection of Body and Soul: The Souls of Artists and of PaintingsPart Two; The Impossibility of Picturing Virtue: The Face as a Natural Sign; The 'Costume' of Virtue, Seeing Beneath the Veil and Francesco Bocchi; Chapter 5 Invention and Amplification: Imagining Sacred History; Gabriele Paleotti's Theory of Sacred Art and Contemplative Ascent; How Images Are like Scripture and like Sermons in Paleotti's 'Discorso'; Rhetoric, Reading and Remembering in Pictorial Invention; The Circumstances of Sacred History; From History to Allegory in Sacred Art.
- Chapter 6 Vasari's City of God: Spirituality, Art and Architecture in Vasari's 'Lives' and 'Ragionamenti'Spirituality in Vasari's Literary Context; The Stones of Memory in the Palazzo Vecchio; The Architecture of Allegory in Vasari and Hugh of St. Victor; The Time of Allegory and the Space of History; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Names and Subjects.