The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome
London: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Softcover. Octavo. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. xiv, 384 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. VG. Item #214932
ISBN: 9780521794411
In this study, Ingrid Rowland examines the culture, society, and intellectual norms that generated the High Renaissance. Fueled by a volatile mix of economic development, scholarly longing for the glories of ancient civilization, and religious ferment, the High Renaissance, Rowland posits, was also a period in which artists, patrons, and scholars sought "new methods for doing new things." This interdisciplinary study assesses the intellectual paradigm shift that occurred at the turn of the fifteenth century. It also finds and explains the connections between ideas, people, and the art works they created by looking at economics, art, contemporary understanding of classical antiquity, and social conventions.
OCLC: 37361706
Price: $20.00