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

The green mantle of the earth! This metaphor borrows from the vocabulary of weaving and epitomizes the Renaissance interest in "fashioning green worlds" in art and poetry. Here it serves as a motto for a cultural poetics that made representing living nature increasingly popular across Ital...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Prosperetti, Leopoldine van Hogendorp, 1948- (Editor ), Oettinger, April (Editor ), Goodchild, Karen Hope (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • introduction : a fresh vision of the natural world in Renaissance Italy / Karen Goodchild, April Oettinger, Leopoldine Prosperetti
  • The green places of Fra Filippo Lippi and Sandro Botticelli / Rebekah Compton
  • anthropomorphic trees and animated nature in Lorenzo Lotto's 1509 St. Jerome / April Oettinger
  • 'Honesta voluptas' : the Renaissance justification for enjoyment of the natural world / Paul Holberton
  • "The Sala delle Asse as Locus Amoenus : revisiting Leonardo da Vinci's arboreal imagery in Milan's Castello Sforzesco" / Jill Pederson
  • Naturalism and antiquity, redefined, in Vasari's Verzure / Karen Hope Goodchild
  • Verdant architecture and tripartite chorography : Toeput and the Italian villa tradition / Natsumi Nonaka
  • Titian : sylvan poet / Leopoldine Prosperetti
  • From Venice to Tivoli : Girolamo Muziano and the 'invention' of the Tiburtine landscape / Patrizia Tosini
  • 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 / Sabine Peinelt-Schmidt
  • The verdant as violence : the storm landscapes of Herman van Swanevelt and Gaspard Dughet / Susan Russell
  • Afterword : a brief journey through the green world of Renaissance Venice / Paul Barolsky.