A reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance,
examining the complex and layered temporalities of Renaissance
images and artifacts. In this widely anticipated book, two leading
contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound
reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance.
Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood examine the meanings, uses,
and effects of chronologies, models of temporality, and notions of
originality and repetition in Renaissance images and artifacts.
Anachronic Renaissance reveals a web of paths traveled by works and
artists-a landscape obscured by art history's disciplinary
compulsion to anchor its data securely in time. The buildings,
paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and medals discussed were
shaped by concerns about authenticity, about reference to
prestigious origins and precedents, and about the implications of
transposition from one medium to another. Byzantine icons taken to
be Early Christian antiquities, the acheiropoieton (or "image made
without hands"), the activities of spoliation and citation,
differing approaches to art restoration, legends about movable
buildings, and forgeries and pastiches: all of these emerge as
basic conceptual structures of Renaissance art. Although a work of
art does bear witness to the moment of its fabrication, Nagel and
Wood argue that it is equally important to understand its temporal
instability: how it points away from that moment, backward to a
remote ancestral origin, to a prior artifact or image, even to an
origin outside of time, in divinity. This book is not the story
about the Renaissance, nor is it just a story. It imagines the
infrastructure of many possible stories.
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