Title The mythological origins of Renaissance Florence : the city as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem / Irina Chernetsky

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) : illustrations Summary "In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted Florence as the reincarnation of the great cities of pagan and Christian antiquity - Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. The architectural image of an ideal Florence was discussed in chronicles and histories, poetry and prose, and treatises on art and religious sermons. It was also portrayed in paintings, sculpture, and sketches, as well as encoded in buildings erected during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Over time, the concept of an ideal Florence became inseparable from the real city, in both its social and architectural structures. Chernetsky demonstrates how the Renaissance notion of genealogy was applied to Florence, which was considered to be part of a family of illustrious cities of both the past and present. She also explores the concept of the ideal city in its intellectual, political, and aesthetic contexts, while offering new insights into the experience of urban space"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 10, 2023) Subject Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence Politics and culture -- Italy -- Florence Public spaces -- Italy -- Florence Monuments -- Italy -- Florence ART / General. Monuments Politics and culture Public spaces Renaissance SUBJECT Florence (Italy) -- Symbolic representation Subject Italy -- Florence Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book LC no. 2022001141 ISBN 9781009039116 1009039113

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