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Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance : The Legacy of the Natural History by Sarah Blake McHam (2013, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300186037
ISBN-139780300186031
eBay Product ID (ePID)143673670
Product Key Features
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance : the Legacy of The Natural History
Publication Year2013
SubjectCriticism & Theory, Europe / Renaissance, Aesthetics, European, History / Renaissance
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Philosophy, History
AuthorSarah Blake Mcham
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight76.8 Oz
Item Length1.1 in
Item Width0.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2012-028930
Dewey Edition23
Reviews". . .[I]t is the most extensive account in print of a relationship that is fundamental to the whole nexus of artists, patrons and public from the 14th century to the High Renaissance and beyond."-Leonard Barkan. The Art Newspaper, ". . .[I]t is the most extensive account in print of a relationship that is fundamental to the whole nexus of artists, patrons and public from the 14th century to the High Renaissance and beyond."--Leonard Barkan. The Art Newspaper, Winner of the 2014 Roland H. Bainton Prize in Art History, given by the Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference., "The most useful and ambitious book I have read is Sarah Blake McHam's Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance . As much a work of reference as of narrative history, McHam's book spells out more comprehensively than ever before the afterlife of Pliny's histories of art."--James Hall, Times Literary Supplement, "The most useful and ambitious book I have read is Sarah Blake McHam's Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance . As much a work of reference as of narrative history, McHam's book spells out more comprehensively than ever before the afterlife of Pliny's histories of art."-James Hall, Times Literary Supplement
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal709.4509024
SynopsisPliny's Natural History (A.D. 77-79) served as an indispensable guide to and exemplar of the ideals of art for Renaissance artists, patrons, and theorists. Bearing the imprimatur of antiquity, the Natural History gave permission to do art on a grand scale, to value it, and to see it as an incomparable source of prestige and pleasure. In this magisterial book Sarah Blake McHam surveys Pliny's influence, from Petrarch, the first figure to recognize Pliny's relevance to understanding the history of Greek art and its reception by the Romans, to Vasari and late 16th-century theorists. McHam charts the historiography of Latin and Italian manuscripts and early printed copies of the Natural History to trace the dissemination of its contents to artists from Donatello and Ghiberti to Michelangelo and Titian. Meanwhile, benefactors commissioned works intended to emulate the prototypes Pliny described, aligning themselves with the great patrons of antiquity. This is a richly illustrated, comprehensive reference work of social history, myth making, iconography, theory, and criticism.
LC Classification NumberN6915.M44 2013
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