The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory,Professor Patricia E

The Italian Renaissance and Cultural MemoryAuthor(s): Patricia Emison\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107005266, 978-1107005266\nSynopsis\nWhy did Renaissance art come to matter so much, so widely, and for so long? Patricia Emison's answer draws on a recalibrated view of the long Renaissance from 1300 to 1600 synthesizing the considerable evolution in our understanding of the epoch since the foundational nineteenth-century studies of Jacob Burckhardt and Heinrich Wlfflin. Demonstrating that the imitation of nature and of antiquity must no longer define its limits, she exposes the self-consciously modern aspect of Renaissance style. She sets the art against the literary and political interests of time and analyzes works of both very familiar artists Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael and lesser-known figures, such as Cima da Conegliano and Federico Barocci, as well as various printmakers. .