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Author Usher, Phillip John

Title Epic arts in Renaissance France / Phillip John Usher
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Contents Cover; Epic Arts in Renaissance France; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; A Note on Editions and Translations; Introduction; 1 Homer, Virgil, and Lucan: Classical Epic and Renaissance Art; The Rebirth of Epic Art; Homer at Fontainebleau; The Fireplace of Hell: Virgil at Oiron; Lucan and the Civil Wars in Burgundy; 2 Doletś Fata: Celebrating François Ier in the Wake of the Battle of Pavia; Monuments for the Second Ascension; Galleries of Kingly Resemblances; Foreign Perspectives; Epic Victory at Marignano; Epic Erasure of Defeat
3 Ronsardś Franciade: From National Genealogy to Tragic Love StoryThe Birth of the Franciade; Calliope at the Louvre; Francus in Paris; Beautiful Objects; Francus ́Pictorial Afterlife; 4 DÁubignéś Tragiques: A Wasteland of Graffiti; Tensions: Incultus or trop beau?; A Coat of Paint for the Palais de Justice; The Devilś Designs on the Louvre; The Vatican versus the Canvas of Heaven; Epic Perspectives and the Art of Delegation; Closing Remarks: From Epic Cassoni to Epic Coffrets; Bibliography; Index
Summary 'Epic Arts in Renaissance France' examines the relationship between art and literature in 16th-century France, and considers how the epic genre became 'public' via realisations in various other art forms
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Dolet Etienne -- 1509-1546. -- Fata
Ronsard Pierre de -- 1524-1585. -- Franciade
Aubigné Agrippa d' -- 1552-1630. -- Tragiques
Art and literature -- France -- History -- 16th century
Literature in art.
Epic literature, French -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Art and literature
Epic literature, French
Literature in art
Literature.
France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191511660
0191511668
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0191767816