The mythological origins of Renaissance Florence : the city as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem / by Irina Chernetsky

"In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted Florence as the reincarnation of the great cities of pagan and Christian antiquity - Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. The architectural image of an ideal Florence was discussed in chronicles and histories, poetry... Πλήρης περιγραφή

Συγγραφείς: Chernetsky Irina 1976-
Κατηγορία Υλικού: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα: English
Έκδοση: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Περίληψη: "In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted Florence as the reincarnation of the great cities of pagan and Christian antiquity - Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. The architectural image of an ideal Florence was discussed in chronicles and histories, poetry and prose, and treatises on art and religious sermons. It was also portrayed in paintings, sculpture, and sketches, as well as encoded in buildings erected during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Over time, the concept of an ideal Florence became inseparable from the real city, in both its social and architectural structures. Chernetsky demonstrates how the Renaissance notion of genealogy was applied to Florence, which was considered to be part of a family of illustrious cities of both the past and present. She also explores the concept of the ideal city in its intellectual, political, and aesthetic contexts, while offering new insights into the experience of urban space"--
Φυσική περιγραφή: 216 σ. εικ. ασπρ. 25 εκ.
Βιβλιογραφία: Περιέχει βιβλιογραφικές αναφορές και ευρετήριο
ISBN: 978-1-316-51095-7
978-1-00-901883-8
9781009039116
Ταξινόμηση Dewey: 945.5109
Προέλευση: ΑΓΟΡΑ 2023
Αριθμός Καταλόγου: 0030016

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