Charles Dempsey

The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian Renaissance-a celebration of classical antiquity-also depict the Florentine countryside populated with figures dressed in contemporary silk robes and fleur-de-lys crowns? Charles Dempsey argues that a fusion of classical form with contemporary content was the defining characteristic of the period.

Produktdetails

• The Bernard Berenson lectures on the Italian Renaissance
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 139mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780674049529
• ISBN-10: 0674049527
• Artikelnr.: 33260325

Autorenporträt

Charles Dempsey

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Courtly Lyric I: Simone Martini, French Courtly Lyric, and the Vernacular 2. Courtly Lyric II: Sandro Botticelli and Poliziano: Humanist Learning and the Vernacular 3. Civic Ritual I: Cardinal Orsini's Paintings and Baccio Baldini's Engravings of the Sibyls: Humanist Learning and Vernacular Drama 4. Civic Ritual II: Reconstructing the Vernacular Octaves with the Prophecies of the Twelve Sibyls Appendix Notes Index

Rezensionen

From clues like the blond hair of Simone's Maestà madonna to the filigree gold embroidery of female costume to contemporary theater, Dempsey demonstrates how the familiar penetrated the fictive and gave broad legibility. The narratives of these images-so alive in the oral culture of the period-also humanize the classical, so that, as Dempsey explains, sibyls participate in the popular religious theater of the time, along with demonstrating the knowledge and creative imagination of the authors who retrieve and invent their histories from classical antiquity.
-- J. T. Paoletti Choice