The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism: Visual Theology and Artistic Invention - Couverture rigide

Greenstein, Jack M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 110710324X ISBN 13 : 9781107103245

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Depicting the Creation of Woman presented a special problem for Renaissance artists. The medieval iconography of Eve rising half-formed from Adam's side was hardly compatible with their commitment to the naturalistic representation of the human figure. At the same time, the story of God constructing the first woman from a rib did not offer the kind of dignified, affective pictorial narrative that artists, patrons, and the public prized. Jack M. Greenstein takes this artistic problem as the point of departure for an iconographic study of this central theme of Christian culture. His book shows how the meaning changed along with the form when Lorenzo Ghiberti, Andrea Pisano, and other Italian sculptors of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries revised the traditional composition to accommodate a naturalistically depicted Eve. At stake, Greenstein argues, is the role of the artist and the power of image-making in reshaping Renaissance culture and religious thought.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jack M. Greenstein is Professor and Chair of the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Mantegna and Painting as Historical Narrative (1992), as well as many journal articles on Renaissance art.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 110710324X
• ISBN 13: 9781107103245
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Avery; https://www.avery.fr/; ; chemin des peupliers 27; Dardilly; France