Inventing the Renaissance Putto - Couverture rigide

Dempsey, Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807826162 ISBN 13 : 9780807826164

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2001

Synopsis

The putto (often portrayed as a mischievous baby) appears frequently in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy. The ""spiritelli"" embody a minor species of demon, neither good nor bad. This book discusses the manifestations of the putto-spiritello in 15th-century art and literature. It offers parallel interpretations of two works: Botticelli's ""Mars and Venus"", a painting in which infant Satyr-putti appear as the panic-inducing spirits of the nightmare, and Politian's ""Stanze"", a poem in which masked cupids appear to the hero in a deceiving dream. The text concludes with an examination of the functions of such masks in the poetry and public masquerades sponsored by Lorenzo de'Medici and in Michelangelo's scheme for the decoration of the Medici Chapel.

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À propos de l?auteur

Charles Dempsey is Professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art at The Johns Hopkins University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807826162
• ISBN 13: 9780807826164
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
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