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Author Cohen, Simona

Title Transformations of Time and Temporality in Medieval and Renaissance Art
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (392 pages)
Series Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history.
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Color Plates; Introduction; Part One Sources and Prototypes of the Renaissance Iconography of Time; Chapter One Concepts of Time in Classical Philosophy; Chapter Two Classical Personifications of Time; Chronos; Aion/Aeternitas; Phanes and the Leontocephaline; Time and Solar Symbolism; Mithraic Time Imagery; Saturn; Janus; Chapter Three Early Christian and Medieval Concepts of Time; The Negation of Time in Early Christian Art; Nox intempesta-The Problem of Defining Time; The Medieval Concretization of Time; Technology, Society and the Clock
Chapter Four Time and Temporality in Medieval ArtThe Cosmic Diagram; Annus and the tempora; Macrocosm and Microcosm; Fortuna and the Ages of Man; Time and Death; Chapter Five The Romanesque Zodiac: Its Symbolic Function on the Church Facade; The Earliest Monumental Zodiacs; The Symbolic Context of the Portal Zodiac; Omnia Tempus Habent; The Medieval Zodiac; The Architectural Context of the Zodiac; Part Two Changing Concepts of Time in the Renaissance; Introduction Changing Concepts of Time in the Renaissance
Chapter Six The Renaissance Personification of Time in Illustrations to Petrarch's Trionfo del TempoQuestioning Assumptions: The Problem of "Father Time"; Petrarch's Description of Time; Illustrations of the Trionfo del Tempo-the initial stage; Time and Temporality: Stage II, 1450-60; Eclecticism and Experimentation: 1460-80; Antique Revival and Renaissance Innovations: 1480-1500; Transformations of Time in the Sixteenth Century; Chapter Seven Time, Virtuousness and Wisdom in Giorgione'sCastelfranco Fresco; Fantasia per mostrare l'arte; Objects and Maxims-the Visual Evidence
Defining the Frame of ReferenceLiberal and Mechanical Arts; Arms and Armor; The Function of the Maxims; Images of Virtue; Images of Time; Contrasts of Virtues and Vices; Virtutis laus omnis in actione consistit; Chapter Eight Kairos/Occasio-Vicissitudes of Propitious Time from Antiquity to the Renaissance; Lysippos and the Classical Literary Tradition; The Fate of Kairos/Occasio in Medieval Art; Pigliar il Tempo: Kairos/Occasio and Fortuna in the Early Renaissance; Occasio & Fortuna-the Literary Tradition of the Early Cinquecento; Occasio and the Fata Morgana
Modifications of Kairos/Occasio in Painting and EmblemsChapter Nine Veritas filia temporis:Time in Cinquecento Propaganda; Early Renaissance Precedents; Cinquecento Innovations: Michelangelo and Pontormo; Veritas filia temporis in the mid Cinquecento; The Emblem of Time as a Printers Device; Personifications of Time: North Italian Monumental Art of the Mid Century; Time in the Artistic Propaganda of Cosimo I-Francesco Salviati: Time in Political Strategy; Angelo Bronzino: Time and Moralization; Giorgio Vasari: Time Recruited; Epilogue
Summary A multifaceted picture of the dynamic concepts of time and temporality is demonstrated in medieval and Renaissance art, as adopted in speculative, ecclesiastical, socio-political, propagandist, moralistic, and poetic contexts. Questions regarding perception of time are investigated through innovative aspects of Renaissance iconography
Notes Appendix I Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts of Petrarch's Trionfi Located in European and American Collections
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Time in art.
Time -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
Time perception -- Europe -- History
Art, Medieval -- Themes, motives.
Art, Renaissance -- Themes, motives
ART -- General.
Art, Medieval -- Themes, motives
Art, Renaissance -- Themes, motives
Time in art
Time perception
Time -- Social aspects
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004267862
9004267867
9781306565332
1306565332