Description
| Product ID: | 9783110743555 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Title: | New Apelleses and New Apollos |
| Subtitle: | Poet-Artists around the Court of Florence (1537-1587) |
| Authors: | Author: Diletta Gamberini |
| Page Count: | 296 |
| Subjects: | Theory of art, Theory of art, History of art, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Renaissance art, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Italy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book breaks new ground by illuminating the key role of verse-writing as a cultural strategy on the part of Italian Renaissance artists. It does so by undertaking a wide-ranging study 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 practitioners of the visual arts appropriated the literary medium to address issues related to their primary professions. New Apelleses, and New Apollos intervenes in the burgeoning scholarly discourse on the intellectual life of artists in early modern Italy, revealing how poetry often provides fresh insights into art-theoretical debates, patronage questions, workshop cultures, issues of professional identity, and networks of personal relations. This book breaks new ground by illuminating the key role of verse-writing as a cultural strategy on the part of Italian Renaissance artists. It does so by undertaking a wide-ranging study 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 practitioners of the visual arts appropriated the literary medium to address issues related to their primary professions. New Apelleses, and New Apollos intervenes in the burgeoning scholarly discourse on the intellectual life of artists in early modern Italy, revealing how poetry often provides fresh insights into art-theoretical debates, patronage questions, workshop cultures, issues of professional identity, and networks of personal relations. |
| Imprint Name: | De Gruyter |
| Publisher Name: | De Gruyter |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-01-31 |