This text is a criticism of the Renaissance mind and its products. It examines art, philosophy and other aspects of the history of ideas and painting and sculpture as related, as it flows out of the widening cornucopia of the past.
This comparative and interdisciplinary study focuses on a cluster of epoch-making themes that emerged in the late sixteenth century. Michelangelo and Giordano Bruno are taken as the founding fathers of the Baroque, and we see that beyond the Alps their lessons were echoed in Montaigne, Cervantes, and the Counter-Reformation culture of the ...
An examination of the links between Renaissance and modern versions of the grotesque, which discusses the grotesque face of 16th-century poetics and rhetoric, and uses the term "eccentricity" to refer to styles of playful extravagance both then and now.
"Titology," a term first coined in 1977 by literary critic Harry Levin, is the field of literary studies that focuses on the significance of a title in establishing the thematic developments of the pages that follow. While the term has been used in the literary community for thirty years, this book presents for the first time a thoroughly ...
This study considers the whole body of Leonardo's works with an eye to an interpretation that combines both cultural history and the history of ideas. It argues that Leonardo's was a myth-making mode of activity that had a Daedalian range and affected art and technology alike.
Published anonymously in 1554, "Lazarillo de Tormes" upset all the strict hierarchies that governed art and society during the Renaissance. It traces the adventures, not of a nobleman or ancient hero, but rather of an ordinary man who struggles for survival in a cruel, corrupt society after growing up under the care of a blind beggar. Giancarlo ...
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