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Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The historiography of the Italian Renaissance has been much
studied, but generally in the context of a few key figures. Much
less appreciated is the extent of the enthusiasm for the subject in
the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the subject was
'discovered' by travellers and men and women of letters,
historians, artists, architects and photographers, and by
collectors on both sides of the Atlantic. The essays in Victorian
and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance explore the
breadth of the responses stimulated by the encounter between the
British, the Americans and the Italians of the Renaissance. The
volume approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary
perspective. While recognising the abiding importance of the
familiar 'great names', it seeks to draw attention to a wider cast
of people, many of whom led colourful, energetic lives, knew Italy
well, and wrote eloquently about the country and its Renaissance.
Several essays show that 'Renaissance studies' became a field in
which female historians could explore areas of relevance to the
'New Woman'. Other chapters examine the aims and politics of
collecting and the place of the collector in literature and in the
rediscovery of Renaissance artists. The contribution of teachers
and other less formal champions of the Italian Renaissance is
explored, as is the role of photographers who re-framed and
re-viewed Florence - the Renaissance city - for Victorian and later
eyes.
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