New Apelleses, and New Apollos Poet-Artists Around the Court of Florence (1537-1587) |
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Author:
| Gamberini, Diletta |
ISBN: | 978-3-11-074355-5 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2022 |
Publisher: | De Gruyter, Inc.
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $80.99 |
Book Description:
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This book illuminates for the first time the pivotal role of verse-writing as a cultural strategy on the part of Italian Renaissance artists. It does so by undertaking a wide-ranging analysis of poems by painters, sculptors, architects, and goldsmiths who were active in Florence under Cosimo I and Francesco I de' Medici - a milieu in which many artists were also literary practitioners and even appropriated the poetic medium to address issues primarily related to art-making.
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More DescriptionThis book illuminates for the first time the pivotal role of verse-writing as a cultural strategy on the part of Italian Renaissance artists. It does so by undertaking a wide-ranging analysis of poems by painters, sculptors, architects, and goldsmiths who were active in Florence under Cosimo I and Francesco I de' Medici - a milieu in which many artists were also literary practitioners and even appropriated the poetic medium to address issues primarily related to art-making.
The study thus intervenes in the burgeoning scholarly discourse on the early modern doctus artifex - the figure well versed in a variety of intellectual activities - while also challenging the traditional marginalization of poetry in comparison with artists´ prose writings.