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The grace of the Italian Renaissance
- Title
- The grace of the Italian Renaissance / Ita Mac Carthy.
- Author
- Mac Carthy, Ita
- Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
- ©2020
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-5470 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- "'Grace' emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic concerns of an age concerned with the reactivation of ancient ideas in a changing world. The book reassesses artists such as Francesco del Cossa, Raphael and Michelangelo and explores anew writers like Castiglione, Ariosto, Tullia d'Aragona and Vittoria Colonna. It shows how these artists and writers put grace at the heart of their work. Grace, Ita Mac Carthy argues, came to be as contested as it was prized across a range of Renaissance Italian contexts. It characterised emerging styles in literature and the visual arts, shaped ideas about how best to behave at court and sparked controversy about social harmony and human salvation. For all these reasons, grace abounded in the Italian Renaissance, yet it remained hard to define. Mac Carthy explores what grace meant to theologians, artists, writers and philosophers, showing how it influenced their thinking about themselves, each other and the world. Ambitiously conceived and elegantly written, this book portrays grace not as a stable formula of expression but as a web of interventions in culture and society."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index
- Call Number
- JFE 20-5470
- ISBN
- 0691175489
- 9780691175485
- OCLC
- 1099685925
- Author
- Mac Carthy, Ita, author.
- Title
- The grace of the Italian Renaissance / Ita Mac Carthy.
- Publisher
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index
- Chronological Term
- 1268-1559
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-5470