Isbn: 9789089643421 - raphael's poetics: art and poetry in high renaissance rome (11 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. see photos.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : New.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : New.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Raphael's Poetics applies strategies of interpretation implicit in antique poetry to the visual art of the Renaissance, concentrating on Raphael's Roman works and their cultural context. Until recently, scholarly discussion was dominated by the application of Renaissance literary theory to visual arts, obscuring the fact that Renaissance humanists who contributed to literary theory were, in the first instance and almost without exception, poets rather than theorists. To counter the tendency towards theory, the hermeneutic rules implicit in their poetry and thus the poetry itself is brought to the fore by this study as a hermeneutical tool. By focusing on the interaction between the work of art and its public, Rijser offers innovative interpretations of canonical works and important insights into the cultural history of the early modern period. Reconstructing a visual grammar and defining the context in which Raphael's art functioned, this study illuminates contemporary significances that have since been lost.…

Paperback. Etat : New. In Raphael?s Poetics, David Rijser applies the strategies of close reading and interpretation usually reserved for studying poetry to Raphael?s most famous works, including the Stanza della Segnatura. The book develops a visual grammar to decode the symbols within Raphael?s paintings and parse the meaning they would have had for a sixteenth-century audience. A masterful piece of art criticism that brings a wholly new perspective to the scholarly discussion, Raphael?s Poetics is a book of singular importance in the study of High Renaissance art and poetry.…

Etat : New. pp. 475 40 Illus. (Col.).

Etat : New. pp. 475.

Etat : New. pp. 475.

Etat : New.