Nagel, Alexander.
The controversy of Renaissance art / Alexander Nagel.
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, ©2011.
xi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Starting in the 1490s, Italy passed through a phase of religious conflict, one that anticipated and ran parallel to the Reformations of northern Europe. A season of controversy put religious images newly under scrutiny, provoking radical investigations into their modes and traditions. Could they reliably convey sacred truth and power, and if so, how? Was the artist a transmitter or an interpreter, or both? Did Christian art have its own logic and legitimacy, or was it part of a long series of formal adaptations that began in deep antiquity? The most vocal religious critics in Italy were also, very often, the most refined patrons of art. Skepticism about images was redirected back into the art, again and again turning controversy into an aesthetic occasion. Working at the limits of the available media, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Bartolommeo, Giorgione, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giulio Romano, Andrea Riccio, Rosso Fiorentino, Titian, Michele Sanmicheli, and Hacopo Sansovino successively dismantled and reconstituted the categories of art-making. Hardly capable of sustaining a program of reform, the experimental art of this period was succeeded by a new era of cultural codification in the second half of the sixteenth century. The Controversy of Renaissance Art is a major reappraisal of a critical period of art-making from one of our most acclaimed historians of art.
9780226567723 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226567729 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Art, Renaissance Italy.
Art Italy.
Christian art and symbolism Italy.
Art de la Renaissance Italie.
Art.
Art, Renaissance.
Christian art and symbolism.
Kunst.
Christliche Kunst.
Architektur.
Konst Renässansen.
Italy.
Italien.
Nonfiction.
Location: Library main 275829
Call No.: BIB 210209
Status: Available
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