From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance
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Renaissance intellects bridge sacred and profane realms.
If you're intrigued by how the spiritual and worldly intermingled during the Renaissance, Rowland takes you deep into the lives of its most brilliant thinkers. Her exploration is more than historical—it's a journey through the intellectual fervor of an era where science and magic were still entwined, making it a thought-provoking read for anyone fascinated by the crossroads of knowledge and belief.
From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance
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ISBN: 9781590171233
Authors:
Ingrid D. Rowland
Publisher: New York Review Books
Date of Publication: 2005-01-31
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics:
European History,
Art History,
Renaissance,
Art History,
Art and Photography,
Design,
Drawing,
History,
Theory
Goodreads rating: 3.85
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From the revelations of classical statuary pulled from the Roman soil as the popes began rebuilding the city in the fifteenth century, to the myth of serenity that Venice constructed to conceal its physical and political fragility, to bloody yet cultured Florence under the Medici, Ingrid Rowland traces the worldly, unworldly, and otherworldly strivings of artists, writers, popes, and politicians during that great "outburst of mental energy" we know as the Renaissance. Here are Botticelli, whose illustrations for the Divine Comedy reveal him to be one of Dante's most careful readers; the multifaceted genius of Leonardo; the astonishing mastery of Titian and the erratic brilliance of artists like Correggio, Caravaggio, and Artemisia Gentileschi; the enigmatic erotic novel Hypnerotomachia Poliphil i; the Western fascination with the mysteries of Egypt; and the glittering spiritual ferment of late Byzantium, which as it collapsed passed on so many ideas to Renaissance Italy. But beyond its artistic accomplishments, Rowland writes, "Renaissance life at its most distinctive was the intangible, unworldly life of the mind." In her pages astronomers and astrologists, poets and philosophers, pornographers and prostitutes jostle for attention with painters and sculptors. Among them the inquisitive Jesuit scholar Athanasius
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