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Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence (Hardcover)
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Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence (Hardcover)
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This study is the first to examine the relationship between art and
violence in 15th-century Florence, exposing the underbelly of a
period more often celebrated for enlightened and progressive ideas.
Renaissance Florentines were constantly subjected to the sight of
violence, whether in carefully staged rituals of execution or
images of the suffering inflicted on Christ. There was nothing new
in this culture of pain, unlike the aesthetic of violence that
developed towards the end of the 15th century. It emerged in the
work of artists such as Piero di Cosimo, Bertoldo di Giovanni,
Antonio del Pollaiuolo, and the young Michelangelo. Inspired by the
art of antiquity, they painted, engraved, and sculpted images of
deadly battles, ultimately normalizing representations of brutal
violence. Drawing on work in social and literary history, as well
as art history, Scott Nethersole sheds light on the relationship
between these Renaissance images, violence, and ideas of artistic
invention and authorship.
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