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1 online resource |
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Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 |
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Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Plates and Figures -- Introduction: A Fresh Vision of the Natural World in Renaissance Italy / Goodchild, Karen / Oettinger, April / Prosperetti, Leopoldine -- Part I. Devotional Viridescence -- 1. The Green Places of Fra Filippo Lippi and Sandro Botticelli / Compton, Rebekah -- 2. Anthropomorphic Trees and Animated Nature in Lorenzo Lotto's 1509 St. Jerome / Oettinger, April -- 3. 'Honesta voluptas': the Renaissance Justification for Enjoyment of the Natural World / Holberton, Paul -- Part II. Building Green -- 4. "The Sala delle Asse as Locus amoenus: Revisiting Leonardo da Vinci's Arboreal Imagery in Milan's Castello Sforzesco" / Pederson, Jill -- 5. Naturalism and Antiquity, Redefined, in Vasari's Verzure / Hope Goodchild, Karen -- 6. Verdant Architecture and Tripartite Chorography: Toeput and the Italian Villa Tradition / Nonaka, Natsumi -- Part III. The Sylvan Exchange -- 7. Titian: Sylvan Poet / Prosperetti, Leopoldine -- 8. From Venice to Tivoli: Girolamo Muziano and the 'Invention' of the Tiburtine Landscape / Tosini, Patrizia -- 9. Of Oak and Elder, Cloud-like Angels, and a Bird's Nest: The Graphic Interpretations of Titian's The Death of St. Peter Martyr by Martino Rota, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Valentin Lefebre, John Baptist Jackson, and their Successors / Peinelt-Schmidt, Sabine -- 10. The Verdant as Violence: The Storm Landscapes of Herman van Swanevelt and Gaspard Dughet / Russell, Susan -- Afterword: A Brief Journey through the Green World of Renaissance Italy / Barolsky, Paul -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
The green mantle of the earth! This metaphor conceives of the vegetation of the earth as a green cloth that drapes the barren earth. Long popular in patristic literature Il mantello verde della terra is a poetical image that ponders the providential greening of the earth on the third day of the Creation. Borrowing from the vocabulary of weaving it epitomizes the Renaissance interest in "fashioning green worlds" in art and poetry. Rachel Carson invoked the phrase to draw attention to environmental damage done to earth's "brilliant robe." Here it serves as a motto for a cultural poetics that made "living nature" an object of renewed interest. The essays gathered in this volume explore the expanding technologies and cultural dimensions of verzure and verdancy in the Italian Renaissance, and the role of painting in shaping the poetics and expression of greenery in the visual arts of the 16th-century and after |
| Analysis |
Renaissance landscape, Italian Renaissance painting, ornament in Renaissance art, cultural history of green, the pastoral |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2019) |
| Subject |
Arts, Italian -- History and criticism
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Nature in art.
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Nature in literature.
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History of art and design styles: c 1400 to c 1600.
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Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700.
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ART -- History -- Renaissance.
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ART -- History -- General.
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Arts, Italian
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Nature in art
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Nature in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goodchild, Karen Hope, editor.
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Oettinger, April, editor
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Prosperetti, Leopoldine van Hogendorp, 1948- editor.
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| ISBN |
9789048535866 |
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9048535867 |
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