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The Italian Renaissance

The Origins of Intellectual and Artistic Change Before the Reformation

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Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
1990
Longman Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-0-582-06425-6 (ISBN)
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The purpose of this book is to decide where the achievement of Renaissance art and letters lay, by exploring the needs for which artists and humanists catered and by exploring why their work took place. It is not a history of the Renaissance, but an attempt to define its value.

Part 1 Humanism: the historical situation in 1300; concepts and assumptions; "Humanitas" - the sources of humanitas, the Socratic tradition, the ideas of Cicero; Petrarch and his successors. Part 2 The artist, the patron and the sources of artistic change: the nature of the problem; the character of artistic change in 14th and 15th century Italy; theories - older interpretations - Antal, Baxandall, the theory of patronage, the case of Isabella d'Este and Perugino's "Battle of Chastity and Lasciviousness", Wackernagel and Florence's contribution to art; artistic innovation and the artist's relations with his patron; the influence of humanistic ideas - ancient rhetoric ideas, Pliny, the motivation of patrons - the ideals of magnificence and "magnanimity". Part 3 The achievement of the Italian Renaissance: man and society - an inherited idea of man, society and civilization, individualism and the cult of creative personality, Machiavelli and Castiglione; the intellectual and the intellectual cultivation; classical scholarship; historigraphy; Renaissance and Reformation - attitudes to the prince and the beginnings of the Reformation in Germany and England, the problem - Luther's doctrines an their origins, Luther's support, the attitude of King Henry VIII, Calvinism and the "decline of magic", the thesis of Keith Thomas, the Calvinist conception of God.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.10.1990
Sprache englisch
Maße 240 x 163 mm
Gewicht 591 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-582-06425-2 / 0582064252
ISBN-13 978-0-582-06425-6 / 9780582064256
Zustand Neuware
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