Main entry:

Rowland, Ingrid D. (Ingrid Drake)

Title & Author:

From heaven to Arcadia : the sacred and the profane in the Renaissance / Ingrid D. Rowland.

Publication:

New York : New York Review Books ; [Berkeley, Calif.?] : Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West, 2005.

Description:

xxv, 294 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Series:

New York Review Collection

Notes:
"New York Review collection."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the art of knowing -- The Renaissance revealed -- Born again in Rome -- Some paradise -- The nervous republic -- Character witnesses -- Botticelli : the way to the light -- The eyes of Leonardo -- The genius of Parma -- Titian : the sacred and profane -- Titian : from heaven to Arcadia -- The real Caravaggio -- Going for baroque -- Through a glass, darkly -- Star Trek -- Mother of the world -- Eastern glory -- When in Rome ...

Summary:

In these essays, most of them originally published in The New York Review of Books, Ingrid Rowland explores topics pertaining to the art and culture of Renaissance Italy. She ranges from the lives and works of its greatest painters - Titian, Leonardo, Caravaggio, Correggio, Botticelli - to the urban and political life of Venice, Florence, and Rome. She also discusses themes of sexuality and eroticism in Renaissance literature and society, the enduring fascination with ancient Egypt, and.
Polymathic Renaissance scholars such as Girolamo Cardano, Giordano Bruno, Galileo, and Athanasius Kircher.

Resources:
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ISBN:

1590171233 (acid-free paper)
9781590171233 (acid-free paper)
9781590172957
1590172957

Subject:

Art, Renaissance Italy.
Art de la Renaissance Italie.
Art, Renaissance.
Kultur
Renaissance
Italy.
Italien

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254934
Call No.: BIB 185009
Status: Available