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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : McHam, Sarah Blake
Titre(s) : Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance [Texte imprimé] : the legacy of the natural history / Sarah Blake McHam
Publication : New Haven : Yale university press,, [2013]
Description matérielle : xiii, 450 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Comprend : The art history of a book on science ; Pliny's career and the scope of the Natural
history : its reception in antiquity and the Middle Ages ; Pliny on ancient art :
the contents of the Natural history, books 33-7 ; Petrarch's Pliny ; Following Petrarch
: the widening influence of Pliny on fourteenth-century readers and artists ; Collecting,
illuminating, and critiquing the Natural history in fifteenth-century Italy ; Alberti,
Ghiberti, and the early Florentine response to Pliny ; Pliny as an inspiration for
fifteenth-century humanists, educators, patrons, and artists in north Italy ; Pliny
in print and in stone ; Mantegna and Leonardo strive to be a new Apelles ; Pliny
helps spur the development of new subject matters ; The Plinian signature as a badge
of prestige ; Pliny and the formation of art collections in Florence ; Laocoön,
or Pliny vindicated ; Beyond Laocoön : Plinian anecdotes as inspiration for subjects
and commissions ; Pliny's influence on early sixteenth-century theoretical writers
; Vasari and Pliny as historians of art ; Pliny's influence on theoretical treatises
after Vasari ; Pliny's legacy.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Pliny's Natural History (AD 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 Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance, 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."--book jacket
Sujet(s) : Pline l'Ancien (0023-0079) -- Appréciation
Pline l'Ancien (0023-0079). Histoire naturelle
Art de la Renaissance -- Italie
Indice(s) Dewey :
709.450 9024 (23e éd.) = Beaux-arts et arts décoratifs - Italie - 1400-1499
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300186031 (cl) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0300186037 (cl) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43637161q
Notice n° :
FRBNF43637161
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