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A journal covering art, literature, and history of the Renaissance for the academic audience. Contains research studies, review essays, and book reviews. Features literary works and themes, as well as specialized studies in the arts, religion, and social
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Preaching magnificence in Renaissance Florence.
June 22, 2008... 1. INTRODUCTION
Sant' Antonino Pierozzi (1389-1459)--Dominican Friar, reformer, author of a monumental, influential, and widely circulated Summa Theologica, friend and critic of the powerful Medici family--begins the sermon he preached on his accession to the Archbishopric of Florence in...
Printing ritual: the performance of community in Christopher Plantin's La Joyeuse & Magnifique Entree de Monseigneur Francoys ... d'Anjou.(Cover story)
June 22, 2008... 1. INTRODUCTION
In April 1582, the Antwerp publisher Christopher Plantin (1514-89) produced an elaborate folio illustrated with twenty-one etchings and engravings in order to commemorate the blijde inkomst (joyous entry) of Hercule Francois de Valois, Duke d'Anjou and Alencon (1555-84)...
The pursuit of art and pleasure in the secret grotto of Wilhelm V of Bavaria.
June 22, 2008... 1. INTRODUCTION
Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria (r. 1579-97) abdicated in favor of his son Maximilian (1573-1651) in 1597, leaving behind a mountain of debt, but also a legacy of extravagant art patronage. Under Wilhelm's reign, the capital city of Munich attracted artists from all over...
Ideal men: masculinity and decline in seventeenth-century Spain.
June 22, 2008... 1. INTRODUCTION
In a sermon preached in 1635 in Baena, the Dominican Francisco de Leon makes a series of startling statements about the men of his day. "Where are there men in Spain?" he queries angrily. "What I see are effeminate men... I see men converted into women." (1) Using the...
L'inquietudine del Quattrocento.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Remo L. Guidi. L'inquietudine del Quattrocento.
Rome: Tielle Media, 2007. 1,118 pp. index. bibl. [euro]92. ISBN: 978-88-87604-32-0.
This is Remo Guidi's second book on moral thought in the Quattrocento. The first, Il dibattito sull'uomo nel '400, which appeared in 1999, was mammoth...