Reviving the Renaissance : the use and abuse of the past in nineteenth-century Italian art and decoration / edited by Rosanna Pavoni ; translated by Adrian Belton.

Title & Author:

Reviving the Renaissance : the use and abuse of the past in nineteenth-century Italian art and decoration / edited by Rosanna Pavoni ; translated by Adrian Belton.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Description:

xiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Rosanna Pavoni -- 1. The legacy of the Renaissance in nineteenth-century architecture and applied arts periodicals / Ornella Selvafolta -- 2. Architettura in fiore / Giuliana Ricci -- 3. Architecture, ornament, the neo-Renaissance and photography / Mauro Cozzi and Luigi Zangheri -- 4. The neo-Renaissance as the image of the private / Annalisa Zanni -- 5. The abuse of the Renaissance: elegance and revival in post-Unification Italy / Grazietta Butazzi -- 6. The neo-Renaissance in nineteenth-century Italy: the search for self-representation in city architecture / Stefano Della Torre and Valeria Pracchi -- 7. The Italian neo-Renaissance at exhibitions during the later nineteenth century / Mariantonietta Picone Petrusa.

Summary:

By the time Italy had developed its obsession with neo-Renaissance in the 1870s, collectors and scholars in the rest of Europe had been excited by Renaissance taste and style for several decades. The Renaissance was then promptly reconceptualized, in a forced alignment with the accepted historical version of its birth and development, and its help enlisted in the search for an Italian national identity.
Thus the italianita of the Renaissance was proclaimed. But what represented this neo-Renaissance in Italy, and what aided its diffusion? In an attempt to answer these questions this book explores the many areas marked by neo-Renaissance taste. Its diffusion and development is traced, from the institutions which instructed its chief exponents, to architecture and exhibitions and the publications which disseminated neo-Renaissance designs so effectively.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0521481511 (hc)
9780521481519 (hc)

Subject:

Renaissance revival (Art) Italy.
Art, Italian 19th century.
Néorenaissance (Art) Italie.
Art italien 19e siècle.
Art, Italian.
Renaissance revival (Art)
Kunst
Neurenaissance
Aufsatzsammlung
Neorenaissance.
Beeldende kunsten.
Bouwkunst.
Néo-Renaissance (art) Italie.
Art 19e siècle Italie.
Geschichte 1860-1914.
Italien Neurenaissance.
Italy.
Italien

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Pavoni, Rosanna, 1953-
Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191907
Call No.: ID N6917.R4; ID:97-B2957
Status: Available

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