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Revaluing Renaissance Art (Hardcover)
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Revaluing Renaissance Art (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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This title was first published in 2000: Michelangelo gave his
painting of "Leda and the Swan" to an apprentice rather than hand
it over to the emissary of the Duke of Ferrar, who had commissioned
it. He was apparently disgusted by the failure of the emissary -
who was probably more used to buying pigs than discussing art - to
accord the picture and the artist the value they deserved. Any
discussion of works of art and material culture implicitly assigns
them a set of values. Whether these values be monetary, cultural or
religious, they tend to constrict the ways in which such works can
be discussed. The variety of potential forms of valuation becomes
particularly apparent during the Italian Renaissance, when
relations between the visual arts and humanistic studies were
undergoing rapid changes against an equally fluid social, economic
and political background. In this volume, 13 scholars explicitly
examine some of the complex ways in which a variety of values might
be associated with Italian Renaissance material culture. Papers
range from a consideration of the basic values of the materials
employed by artists, to the manifestation of cultural values in
attitudes to dress and domestic devotion. By illuminating some of
the ways in which values were constructed, they provide a broader
context within which to evaluate Renaissance material culture.
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