Title The grace of the Italian Renaissance / Ita Mac Carthy

Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Three Graces -- Chapter 1. A Renaissance Keyword -- Chapter 2. Grace Abounding: Four Contexts -- Chapter 3. Grace and Favour: Baldassare Castiglione and Raphael -- Chapter 4. Grace and Beauty: Vittoria Colonna and Tullia d'Aragona -- Chapter 5. Grace and Ingratitude: Lodovico Dolce and Ludovico Ariosto -- Chapter 6. Grace and Labour: Michelangelo Buonarroti and Vittoria Colonna -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "This book explores grace as a complex idea and term that at once expresses and connects the most pressing ethical, social, and aesthetic debates of the Italian Renaissance. Grace surfaced time and again in the period's discussions of the individual pursuit of the good life and in the collective quest to determine the best means to a harmonious society. It rose to prominence in theological debates about the soul's salvation and in secular debates about how best to live at court. It was absolutely central to the thinking of Reformation figures such as Erasmus and Luther, and just as central to the Counter-Reformation response. It played a pivotal role in the humanist campaign to develop a shared literary language and it featured prominently in the efforts of writers and artists to express the full potential of mankind. Grace abounded in the Italian Renaissance, yet it was as hard to define as it was ever-present. The courtier and writer, Baldassare Castiglione, for example, described it as that 'certain air' which distinguished excellent courtiers and court ladies from their mediocre counterparts, while his artist friend, Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael), saw it as that quality produced when one conceals the hard work and effort of art behind a veil of nonchalance and ease. This classically-inspired grace was used by many as a way of claiming distinction for themselves and of arguing for the pre-eminence of their chosen disciplines, but it drew criticism too from those who saw it as self-interested and superficial. Quarrels about the meaning and value of grace involved theologians, artists, writers and philosophers and intersected with the most famous debates of the time about language, society and the role of literature and the visual arts. As well as shedding light on what grace meant to those who invoked it, this book aims to trace the interdisciplinary transactions that the word made possible. Each chapter combines consideration of pivotal texts and images with interdisciplinary approaches, examining what grace meant to protagonists of the Italian Renaissance and exploring the correspondence, whether direct or indirect, between them. What emerges is a network of friendships, rivalries, agreements and disputes: a sketch of the interconnections that made the Italian Renaissance"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Aesthetics Allegory Ambivalence Anathema Art critic Art criticism Art history Art Astolfo Baldassare Castiglione Balzan Bembo Brotton Buonarroti Calculation Canossa Canti (Leopardi) Catherine of Siena Christian theology Clodagh Close reading Codrington Library Council of Trent Counter-Reformation Courtesy Courtier De Oratore Decorum Divine grace Drawing Durham University Emblem Epigram Flattery Francesco del Cossa Generosity Giorgio Vasari Giovanni Pico della Mirandola God's Grace God Grace and favour Humility Iconography Institutio Oratoria Irony Italian Renaissance Johann Joachim Winckelmann La Fornarina Lecture Linguistics Literature Lodovico Dolce Mannerism Martin McLaughlin Medici Chapel Michelangelo Moderata Fonte Mythologies (book) Narrative O'Sullivan Orlando Furioso Palazzo Schifanoia Paragone Parody Petrarch Philology Philosopher Pietro Bembo Pliny the Elder Poetry Poliziano Pope Julius II Pope Leo X Pope Paul III Princeton University Press Prose Protogenes Quintilian Reginald Pole Religious experience Renaissance art Renaissance humanism Rhetoric Romanticism San Giorgio Maggiore Sanctification Satire Sola fide Spiritual gift Spirituali Spirituality Sprezzatura Suggestion Terence Thought Treatise Tullia d'Aragona Vittoria Colonna Work of art Writing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index Notes In English Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 15, 2020) Subject Grace (Aesthetics) Grace (Theology) Graces, The. Language and culture -- Italy -- History HISTORY -- Renaissance. Grace (Aesthetics) Grace (Theology) Graces, The Intellectual life Language and culture SUBJECT Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068989 Subject Italy Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 069118979X 9780691189796

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