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Ovid and the metamorphoses of modern art from Botticelli to Picasso

Title
Ovid and the metamorphoses of modern art from Botticelli to Picasso / Paul Barolsky.
Author
Barolsky, Paul, 1941-
Publication
  • New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
  • ©2014

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Description
xviii, 250 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
"Written in the spirit of Ovid, this lively and erudite book traces the art derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses from the Renaissance up to the present day. The Metamorphoses has been more widely illustrated than any other book except the Bible; for centuries, great artists have drawn, painted, and sculpted its stories, the artists often responding not only to Ovid's work but to one another's in their depictions. Paul Barolsky, a specialist in Italian Renaissance art and literature, explores Ovid's unparalleled influence on the visual arts, discussing works by many of the most famous artists of the past six centuries. Broadly interdisciplinary, the new understanding of the themes of the Metamorphoses revealed here will appeal to those in the fields of Renaissance art, humanism, literature, history, and classics, among others. At once witty, entertaining, and profound, Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso is a meditation on what words can achieve that images cannot, and conversely what images can show that words cannot tell. "--
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
JQE 15-118
ISBN
  • 9780300196696 (hardback)
  • 0300196695 (hardback)
LCCN
2014012244
OCLC
876349431
Author
Barolsky, Paul, 1941- author.
Title
Ovid and the metamorphoses of modern art from Botticelli to Picasso / Paul Barolsky.
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JQE 15-118
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