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The grace of the Italian Renaissance

Title
  1. The grace of the Italian Renaissance / Ita Mac Carthy.
Published by
  1. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
  2. ©2020
Author
  1. Mac Carthy, Ita

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Description
  1. xiii, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
Summary
  1. "'Grace' emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic concerns of an age concerned with the reactivation of ancient ideas in a changing world. The book reassesses artists such as Francesco del Cossa, Raphael and Michelangelo and explores anew writers like Castiglione, Ariosto, Tullia d'Aragona and Vittoria Colonna. It shows how these artists and writers put grace at the heart of their work. Grace, Ita Mac Carthy argues, came to be as contested as it was prized across a range of Renaissance Italian contexts. It characterised emerging styles in literature and the visual arts, shaped ideas about how best to behave at court and sparked controversy about social harmony and human salvation. For all these reasons, grace abounded in the Italian Renaissance, yet it remained hard to define. Mac Carthy explores what grace meant to theologians, artists, writers and philosophers, showing how it influenced their thinking about themselves, each other and the world. Ambitiously conceived and elegantly written, this book portrays grace not as a stable formula of expression but as a web of interventions in culture and society."--
Subject
  1. Language and culture
  2. Italy
  3. Intellectual life
  4. Grace (Theology)
  5. Grace (Aesthetics)
  6. Language and culture > Italy > History
  7. Graces, The
  8. Renaissance > Italy
  9. Italy > Intellectual life > 1268-1559
  10. History
  11. 1268-1559
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Call number
  1. JFE 20-5470
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index
Author
  1. Mac Carthy, Ita, author.
Title
  1. The grace of the Italian Renaissance / Ita Mac Carthy.
Publisher
  1. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Copyright date
  1. ©2020
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index
Chronological term
  1. 1268-1559
ISBN
  1. 0691175489
  2. 9780691175485
Research call number
  1. JFE 20-5470
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