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The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (399 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674062733
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Early Renaissance and Vernacular CultureDDC classification:
  • 709.45
LOC classification:
  • NX552
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- 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.

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.

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