Title & Author:

Rethinking the High Renaissance : the culture of the visual arts in early sixteenth-century Rome / edited by, Jill Burke.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2012.

Description:

xvi, 386 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Visual culture in early modernity

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-373) and index.
Inventing the High Renaissance, from Winckelmann to Wikipedia: an introductory essay / Jill Burke -- Teaching (and thinking about) the High Renaissance: with some observations on its relationship to classical antiquity / Brian A. Curran -- Figments and fragments: Julius II's Rome / Suzanne B. Butters -- Humanists, historians, and the fullness of time in Renaissance Rome / Kenneth Gouwens -- Cellini's Roma / Gwendolyn Trottein -- On the unity/disunity of the arts: Vasari (and others) on architecture / David Cast -- Bramante and the origins of the "High Renaissance" / Cristoph Luitpold Frommel -- Classical mistranslations: the absence of a modular system in Calvo's De architectura / Angeliki Pollali -- Giuliano da Sangallo between Florentine Quattrocento and Roman High Renaissance / Sabine Frommel -- Perugino, Raphael and the decoration of the Stanza dell'incendio / Michael Bury -- Forgery, faith and divine hierarchy after Lorenzo Valla / Meredith J. Gill -- The conception and design of Michelangelo's Sistine chapel ceiling: "wishing just to shed a little light upon the whole rather than mentioning the parts" / David Hemsoll -- Pope Clement VII and the decorum of medieval art / Sheryl E. Reiss.

Summary:

"The perception that the early sixteenth century saw a culmination of the Renaissance classical revival - only to degrade into mannerism shortly after Raphael's death in 1520 - has been extremely tenacious; but many scholars agree that this tidy narrative is deeply problematic. Exploring how we can reconceptualize the High Renaissance in a way that reflects how we research and teach today, this volume complicates and deepens our understanding of artistic change.
Focusing on Rome, the paradigmatic centre of the High Renaissance narrative, each essay presents a case study of a particular aspect of the culture of the city in the early sixteenth century, including new analyses of Raphael's stanze, Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and the architectural designs of Bramante. The contributors question notions of periodization, reconsider the Renaissance relationship with classical antiquity, and ultimately reconfigure our understanding of 'high Renaissance style'."--Pub. desc.

ISBN:

9781409425588 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1409425584 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art, High Renaissance Italy Rome.
Art, Italian Italy Rome 16th century.
Art de la Renaissance Haute Renaissance Italie Rome.
Art italien Italie Rome 16e siècle.
Arte [e] Cultura Roma Sec. 16.
Rinascimento Roma.
Art, High Renaissance.
Art, Italian.
Kunst
Architektur
Renaissance
Kultur.
Italy Rome.
Rom

Added entries:

Burke, Jill, 1971-
Visual culture in early modernity.

Culture of the visual arts in early sixteenth-century Rome

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278710
Call No.: BIB 214353
Status: Available