From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance

Author:   Ingrid D. Rowland
Publisher:   The New York Review of Books, Inc
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9781590171233


Pages:   324
Publication Date:   01 November 2004
Format:   Hardback
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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 D. 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 mastery of Titian and the brilliance of artists like Correggio and Caravaggio; the enigmatic erotic novel Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the decoding of which was the subject of the recent novel The Rule of Four; the Western fascination with Egypt; and the spiritual ferment of late Byzantium, which as it collapsed passed on so many ideas to Renaissance Italy.

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Author:   Ingrid D. Rowland
Publisher:   The New York Review of Books, Inc
Imprint:   NYRB Collections
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9781590171233


ISBN 10:   1590171233
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   01 November 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  Adult education ,  General ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Ingrid Rowland brings a lost world to life. She has given us a genuinely metropolitan High Renaissance, not only passionate and learned, but also sexy, urbane, and fascinating. <br>-- Anthony Grafton<br><br> This engaging collection of 17 essays focuses on Renaissance painting, with forays into Ingres, Roman archaeology, and David Hockney's research into Old Master optics. But this barely does justice to the broadly roaming intellect at work, which can move from Copernicus to the libretto for Peter Grimes to the Gospel of Matthew without a pause...Highly recommended. <br>-- Choice Reviews <br><br>. ..as a brightly lit bustle through widely scattered topics, From Heaven to Arcadia offers pleasures on almost every page....the essays are celebrations of the glories of the Renaissance and those who write about them. <br>-- Theodore K. Rabb, The Times Literary Supplement


Ingrid Rowland brings a lost world to life. She has given us a genuinely metropolitan High Renaissance, not only passionate and learned, but also sexy, urbane, and fascinating. -- Anthony Grafton This engaging collection of 17 essays focuses on Renaissance painting, with forays into Ingres, Roman archaeology, and David Hockney's research into Old Master optics. But this barely does justice to the broadly roaming intellect at work, which can move from Copernicus to the libretto for Peter Grimes to the Gospel of Matthew without a pause...Highly recommended. -- Choice Reviews . ..as a brightly lit bustle through widely scattered topics, From Heaven to Arcadia offers pleasures on almost every page....the essays are celebrations of the glories of the Renaissance and those who write about them. -- Theodore K. Rabb, The Times Literary Supplement


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Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance, The Scarith of Scornello, and a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

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