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A carregar... From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissancepor Ingrid D. Rowland
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From the revelations of classical statuary pulled from the Roman soil as the popes began rebuilding the city in the fifteenth century, to the myth of serenity that Venice constructed to conceal its physical and political fragility, to bloody yet cultured Florence under the Medici, Ingrid D. Rowland traces the worldly, unworldly, and otherworldly strivings of artists, writers, popes, and politicians during that great “outburst of mental energy” we know as the Renaissance.Here are Botticelli, whose illustrations for the Divine Comedy reveal him to be one of Dante’s most careful readers; the multifaceted genius of Leonardo; the astonishing mastery of Titian and the erratic brilliance of artists like Correggio, Caravaggio, and Artemisia Gentileschi; the enigmatic erotic novel Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the decoding of which was the subject of the recent novel The Rule of Four; the Western fascination with the mysteries of Egypt; and the glittering spiritual ferment of late Byzantium, which as it collapsed passed on so many ideas to Renaissance Italy.But beyond its artistic accomplishments, Rowland writes, “Renaissance life at its most distinctive was the intangible, unworldly life of the mind.” In her pages astronomers and astrologists, poets and philosophers, pornographers and prostitutes jostle for attention with painters and sculptors. Among them the inquisitive Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher stands out as a polymath who ranged over nearly every field of knowledge. Even though his commingling of scientific observation and hermetic symbolism is now obsolete, he remains for Rowland “a builder of connections who insisted on seeing harmony in the midst of disorder”–and thus one of the most exemplary Renaissance figures of all. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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There is no real direction to this book - each review just stands on its own. So one could certainly pick it up and just read any chapter in isolation or in any order at all.
It is a good fun read. One needn't have read any of the books reviewed. The reviews stand on their own very nicely, not just apart from each other but apart from the works reviewed. Rowland seems to know not only a lot about the world of the Renaissance, but also about how that world is discussed today. E.g. she does a nice job of comparing several books about Artemisia Gentileschi.
This book is more like a glass of champagne than a fitet mignon. It sparkles delightfully but is not filling. It might well work as an appetizer, sending the reader off to dig deeper into any of the directions it touches on. ( )