Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy
Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy

Author: Blake Wilson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 1108488072

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The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.

Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura
Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura

Author: Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-05-06

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780521809238

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Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Palace has often been considered the artist's most aesthetically perfect work. Executed between 1508 and 1511, it features a painted ceiling, a pavement of inlaid marble, and four frescoed walls, all orchestrated with a cast of famous historical figures who exemplify the various disciplines of learning. Joost-Gaugier's study is the first to examine the elements of the Stanza della Segnatura as an ensemble, exploring the meaning of the frescoes and accompanying decoration in light of recent studies into the intellectual world of High Renaissance Rome.

Brodsky
Brodsky

Author: Людмила Штерн

Publisher: Baskerville Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9781880909706

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Brodsky was a friend of the author's family and confided his thoughts and feelings to her, as well as poetry in progress, over more than thirty years both before and after their emigration. Includes never before published poems and numerous photographs.

Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe
Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe

Author: Natasha Constantinidou

Publisher: Brill's Studies in Intellectua

Published: 2019-11-21

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 9789004343856

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This volume, edited by Natasha Constantinidou and Han Lamers, investigates modes of receiving and responding to Greeks, Greece, and Greek in early modern Europe (15th-17th centuries). The book's 17 detailed studies illuminate the reception of Greek culture (the classical, Byzantine, and even post-Byzantine traditions), the Greek language (ancient, vernacular, and 'humanist'), as well as the people claiming, or being assigned, Greek identities during this period in different geographical and cultural contexts. 0Discussing subjects as diverse as, for example, Greek studies and the Reformation, artistic interchange between Greek East and Latin West, networks of communication in the Greek diaspora, and the ramifications of Greek antiquarianism, the book aims at encouraging a more concerted debate about the role of Hellenism in early modern Europe that goes beyond disciplinary boundaries, and opening ways towards a more over-arching understanding of this multifaceted cultural phenomenon. 0.

Shipwreck With Spectator
Shipwreck With Spectator

Author: Hans Blumenberg

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780262024112

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This elegant essay exemplifies Blumenberg's ideas about the ability of the historical study of metaphor to illuminate essential aspects of being human. Originally published in the same year as his monumental Work on Myth, Shipwreck with Spectator traces the evolution of the complex of metaphors related to the sea, to shipwreck, and to the role of the spectator in human culture from ancient Greece to modern times. The sea is one of humanity's oldest metaphors for life, and a sea journey, Blumenberg observes, has often stood for our journey through life. We all know the role that shipwrecks can play in this journey, and at some level we have all played witness to others' wrecks, standing in safety and knowing that there is nothing we can do to help, yet fixed comfortably or uncomfortably in our ambiguous role as spectator. Through Blumenberg's seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of letters, from ancient texts through nineteenth-century reminiscences and modern speeches, we see layer upon layer revealed in the meanings humans have given to these metaphors; and in this way we begin to understand what metaphors can do that more straightforward modes of expression cannot. This edition of Shipwreck with Spectator also includes "Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality", an essay that recounts the evolution of Blumenberg's ideas about metaphorology in the years following his early manifesto "Paradigms for a Metaphorology".