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4 giorni fa · The Florentine Renaissance in art is the new approach to art and culture in Florence during the period from approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th. This new figurative language was linked to a new way of thinking about humankind and the world around it, based on the local culture and humanism already ...
12 mag 2024 · So the niche is there for a new history of Renaissance Florence. Najemy has risen admirably to the challenge. He has assimilated the vast secondary literature on Florence, from the beginning of the thirteenth to the late sixteenth century. He has read, with admirable thoroughness and perspicuity, all the published narrative sources.
1 giorno fa · In Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art, intellectual historian and critic Rochelle Gurstein explores the nature of the classic in art from the 18 th century to the present day. Here she reflects on the topic while considering current events surrounding the vandalism of famous pieces and discussing how the “classic ...
16 ore fa · Vinko Paletin, who joined Francisco de Montejo’s campaign in Yucatán in the 1530s, claimed to have found Punic inscriptions in Chichen Itza and held that the Maya were of Carthaginian descent. 20 In sixteenth-century Michoacán, as in the Valley of Mexico, Franciscan friars and their indigenous students worked together, producing Christian texts in Purépecha—that situation accounts for ...
2 giorni fa · Jorge Fonseca presents the results of his research on sixteenth-century Southern Portugal, where he estimates a total of six to seven per cent of blacks in the population, mainly in urban areas, in contrast with the Northern region, where blacks were scarce.
2 giorni fa · This talk recontextualizes sixteenth-century central Italian designed landscapes from a specifically regional perspective, framing these sites as products of a lively and ongoing dialogue between their patrons concerning gardens, villa culture, and the distinctive nature of the Tuscian environment.
1 giorno fa · My first monograph, City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice (University of California Press, 1995, awarded the Bainton Book Prize of the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference and the Center for Reformation Research), did fine-grained historical, textual, and music-analytic work to reconstruct the musical-literary salons of Renaissance Venice in the 1540s and offer new models for thinking about ...
