Ars et Ingenium: The Embodiment of Imagination in Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Drawings
Ars et Ingenium: The Embodiment of Imagination in Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Drawings

Author: Pari Riahi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-11

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1317755987

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When did drawing become an integral part of architecture? Among several architects and artists who brought about this change during the Renaissance, Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s ideas on drawing recorded in his Trattati di architettura, ingegneria e arte militare (1475-1490) are significant. Francesco suggests that drawing is linked to the architect’s imagination and central in conveying images and ideas to others. Starting with the broader edges of Francesco’s written work and steadily penetrating into the fantastic world of his drawings, the book examines his singular formulation of the act of drawing and its significance in the context of the Renaissance. The book concludes with speculations on how Francesco’s work is relevant to us at the onset of another major shift in architecture caused by the proliferation of digital media.

Giotto and the Orators
Giotto and the Orators

Author: Michael Baxandall

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780198173878

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This highly acclaimed volume examines the one firm bridge between the art of the humanists and the painters of the early Italian Renaissance: what Petrarch and other humanists wrote about painting. Baxandall surveys the main themes of their art criticism and describes how their language conditioned their insights into painting.

The Judgment of Sense
The Judgment of Sense

Author: David Summers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-02-23

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780521386319

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With the rise of naturalism in the art of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance there developed an extensive and diverse literature about art which helped to explain, justify and shape its new aims. In this book, David Summers provides an investigation of the philosophical and psychological notions invoked in this new theory and criticism. From a thorough examination of the sources, he shows how the medieval language of mental discourse derived from an understanding of classical thought.

The Stylus and the Scalpel
The Stylus and the Scalpel

Author: Tommaso Gazzarri

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-09-21

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 3110673770

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Seneca’s developed metaphors draw on what is known to describe the unknown. They put hard ethical in highly accessible, and often quite entertaining, terms. The present book provides a functional description of Seneca’s dialectical relation between metaphorical language and philosophy. It shows how Stoic philosophy finds a new means of expression in Seneca’s highly elaborated rhetorical discourse, and how this relates to the social and cultural demands of Neronian culture. Metaphors are purposely utilized to work "collectively" rather than by category or type and that, therefore, the analysis of what metaphors do when Seneca chooses to combine them in clusters, demonstrates the existence of a "metanarrative of rhetoric". This approach is fundamentally innovative and has the advantage of gauging the functioning of Senecan style as a whole, rather than focusing on single features of its rhetorical functioning. The main target is to show how philosophical preaching materially contributes to the healing of human soul because it shapes the individual’s cognitive faculty in a way that is physical and not simply figurative. The stylus and the scalpel blend in their functions. This kind of therapy is not just the simulacrum of a more "real" one, it is in itself medical in nature.

Music and the Renaissance
Music and the Renaissance

Author: Philippe Vendrix

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1351557505

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This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate brilliantly the complexity of European cultural history in the Renaissance. On the one hand, scholars of this period were inspired by classical narratives on the sublime effects of music and, on the other hand, were affected by the profound religious upheavals which destroyed the unity of Western Christianity and, in so doing, opened up new avenues in the world of music. These articles offer as broad a vision as possible of the ways of thinking about music which developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages
Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages

Author: Reinhard Strohm

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9780198162056

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This entirely new volume of NOHM takes account of developments in late-medieval music scholarship, along with significant changes in the performance practice of the late-medieval repertory, witnessed during the latter half of the 20th century.

Creating the "Divine" Artist
Creating the

Author: Patricia A. Emison

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 9004137092

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An investigation of why Michelangelo first, and then many other, Renaissance artists and works were called "divine" by contemporaries, this study ranges from fourteenth-century praise of Dante to a variety of sixteenth-century habits of courtly compliment.