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1 online resource (392 pages) |
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Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History |
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Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Appendix I Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts of Petrarch's Trionfi Located in European and American Collections |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Time in art.
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Time -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
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Time perception -- Europe -- History
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Art, Medieval -- Themes, motives.
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Art, Renaissance -- Themes, motives
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ART -- General.
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Art, Medieval -- Themes, motives
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Art, Renaissance -- Themes, motives
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Time in art
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Time perception
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Time -- Social aspects
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Europe
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9789004267862 |
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9004267867 |
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9781306565332 |
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1306565332 |
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