The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture= / Charles Dempsey.
2012
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Title
The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture= / Charles Dempsey.
Author
Dempsey, Charles, author.
ISBN
9780674062733
Published
Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (398 p.) : 45 halftones
Item Number
10.4159/harvard.9780674062733 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
709.45
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? Upending conventional interpretations of this well-studied period, Charles Dempsey argues that a fusion of classical form with contemporary content, once seen as the paradox of the Renaissance, can be better understood as its defining characteristic. Dempsey describes how Renaissance artists deftly incorporated secular and popular culture into their creations, just as they interwove classical and religious influences. Inspired by the love lyrics of Parisian troubadours, Simone Martini altered his fresco Maestà in 1321 to reflect a court culture that prized terrestrial beauty. As a result the Maestà scandalously revealed, for the first time in Italian painting, a glimpse of the Madonna's golden locks. Modeled on an ancient statue, Botticelli's Birth of Venus went much further, featuring fashionable beauty ideals of long flowing blonde hair, ivory skin, rosy cheeks, and perfectly arched eyebrows. In the only complete reconstruction of Feo Belcari's twelve Sybilline Octaves, Dempsey shows how this poet, patronized by the Medici family, was also indebted to contemporary dramatic modes. Popularizing biblical scenes by mixing the familiar with the exotic, players took the stage outfitted in taffeta tunics and fanciful hats, and one staging even featured a papier maché replica of Jonah's Whale. As Dempsey's thorough study illuminates, Renaissance poets and artists did not simply reproduce classical aesthetics but reimagined them in vernacular idioms.
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The Bernard Berenson lectures on the Italian Renaissance
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Courtly Lyric I
2. Courtly Lyric II
3. Civic Ritual I
4. Civic Ritual II
Appendix
Notes
Index
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Courtly Lyric I
2. Courtly Lyric II
3. Civic Ritual I
4. Civic Ritual II
Appendix
Notes
Index