The Mirror of the Gods - Malcolm Bull
How the Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods
KORTE INHOUD
?This book is most valuable for its overview of a vast field - the reception of classical mythology throughout European art and literature from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. It surveys the literary sources that spurred the revival of interest in the pagan gods and categories the types of artistic objects - domestic furnishings, painting, sculpture, prints, tapestries, manuscripts, and majolica - where their images appeared. Bull conclues that Hercules, Jupiter, Venus, Bacchus, Diana, and Apollo were the most frequently depicted, and accordingly devotes a chapter to each. The final chapter analyses the selection pattern attributing it to individual choices of patrons interested in astrology, and hence planetary deities, and in subject matter involving amorous encounters or exotic animals. The epilogue explains the thematic distribution in terms os mythology supplying what Christianity eschewed, an imagery of sexuality, fertility and secular power. (?) His large scope allows Bill to make a n...
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2005Uitgever: Oxford University Press, USA464 paginasISBN-10: 0195219236ISBN-13: 9780195219234Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Oxford (...), 2005. XI,465p. Richly ills.(B&W and some full-colour pictures). Hard bound. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: BULL, M.,] [Uitgever: Oxford University Press] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: The Mirror of the Gods. How Renaissance Artists Rediscoverd the Pagan Gods.]
