The Mythological Origins of Renaissance Florence: The City as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem Chernetsky Irina
The Mythological Origins of Renaissance Florence: The City as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem Chernetsky Irina In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted…
Specifikacia The Mythological Origins of Renaissance Florence: The City as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem Chernetsky Irina
The Mythological Origins of Renaissance Florence: The City as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem Chernetsky Irina
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. It was also portrayed in paintings, sculpture, and sketches, as well as encoded in buildings erected during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The architectural image of an ideal Florence was discussed in chronicles and histories, poetry and prose, and treatises on art and religious sermons.
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. Over time, the concept of an ideal Florence became inseparable from the real city, in both its social and architectural structures. She also explores the concept of the ideal city in its intellectual, political, and
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