Anachronic Renaissance (eBook)

Alexander Nagel, Christopher S. Wood (Autoren)

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2010
456 Seiten
Zone Books (Verlag)
978-1-942130-44-4 (ISBN)

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In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians present a stunning reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. With intellectual brilliance, Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood reexamine the meanings, uses, and effects of chronologies, models of temporality, and notions of originality and repetition in Renaissance images and artifacts.Anachronic Renaissance reveals a web of paths traveled by works and artists, a landscape obscured by art history's disciplinary compulsion to anchor its data securely in time. The buildings, paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and medals addressed in this book were shaped by concerns about authenticity, about reference to prestigious origins and precedents, and about the implications of transposition from one medium to another. Byzantine icons taken to be early Christian antiquities, the acheiropoeton or image made without hands, the activities of spoliation and citation, differing approaches to art restoration, legends about movable buildings, and forgeries and pastiches: all of these emerge as basic conceptual structures of Renaissance art. The authors show how the complex and layered temporalities of images offered a counterpoint to the linear chronologies that increasingly structured commerce, politics, travel, and everyday life in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.While a work of art does bear witness to the moment of its fabrication, Nagel and Wood argue that it is equally important to understand its temporal instability: how it points away from that moment, backward to a remote ancestral origin, to a prior artifact or image, even to an origin outside of time, in divinity. The authors conclude with an analysis of Roman episodes and projects of the decades around 1500, culminating in Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura. This book is not the story about the Renaissance, nor is it just a story. It imagines the infrastructure of many possible stories. Clearly, Anachronic Renaissance will be essential reading for historians of Western art and all those concerned with the historiography of material culture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.5.2010
• Zusatzinfo: 126 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: Aby Warburg • Altarpiece • Anachronism • ancient art • Ancient Roman Architecture • Andrea Fulvio • Andrea Mantegna • Apse • Art Forgery • Art History • Baldachin • Baptistery • Basilica • Basilica of San Vitale • Benedetto da Maiano • Bernardo Rossellino • Bernard van Orley • Church Fathers • Cimabue • Cosmatesque • Cosmati • Counter-Reformation • cult image • De Architectura • Diptych • Dome of the Rock • Donatello • Donation of Constantine • Early Netherlandish painting • engraving • Epigram • Epigraphy • Erwin Panofsky • Filarete • Filippo Brunelleschi • Florence Cathedral • Forgery • Francesco di Giorgio Martini • Giorgio Vasari • Giotto • Giovanni Bellini • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola • Giuliano da Sangallo • Giulio Romano • Gothic architecture • Hans Memling • high renaissance • Horse Tamers • Humanist minuscule • Icon • Iconography • Illustration • Jan van Eyck • Jan van Scorel • Lateran Baptistery • Leonardo da Vinci • livy • Lorenzo Valla • Manfredo Tafuri • Marcantonio Raimondi • mathematician • Mathematics • Michelangelo • Micromosaic • Modernity • Neoclassicism • Panel painting • Paragone • Peruzzi • Pietro Cavallini • Pinturicchio • Pisanello • Pope Julius II • Pope Sixtus IV • Regisole • Relic • reliquary • Renaissance Art • Rib vault • Richard Krautheimer • Rogier van der Weyden • Romanticism • Sancta Sanctorum • Sandro Botticelli • Santa Croce (Venice) • Santa Maria sopra Minerva • Sistine Chapel • Spolia • still life • Suetonius • Tempio Malatestiano • The School of Athens • Titulus Crucis • Titulus (inscription) • Veil of Veronica • Vitruvius • Vittore Carpaccio • woodcut • work of art • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-942130-44-9 / 1942130449
• ISBN-13: 978-1-942130-44-4 / 9781942130444