Perpetual Motion: Transforming Shapes in the Renaissance from da Vinci to Montaigne (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)

Jeanneret

ISBN 10: 0801864801 / ISBN 13: 9780801864803

Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

More than fifty illustrations supplement his analysis. Translator(s): Poller, Nidra. Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. Num Pages: 336 pages, 58, 43 black & white halftones, 15 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JB; ACND; DSBD; HBG; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 635. . 2001. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Codice articolo 9780801864803

Riassunto:

The popular conception of the Renaissance as a culture devoted to order and perfection does not account for an important characteristic of Renaissance art: many of the period's major works, including those by da Vinci, Erasmus, Michelangelo, Ronsard, and Montaigne, appeared as works-in-progress, always liable to changes and additions. In Perpetual Motion, Michel Jeanneret argues for a sixteenth century swept up in change and fascinated by genesis and metamorphosis.

Jeanneret begins by tracing the metamorphic sensibility in sixteenth-century science and culture. Theories of creation and cosmology, of biology and geology, profoundly affected the perspectives of leading thinkers and artists on the nature of matter and form. The conception of humanity (as understood by Pico de Mirandola, Erasmus, Rabelais, and others), reflections upon history, the theory and practice of language, all led to new ideas, new genres, and a new interest in the diversity of experience. Jeanneret goes on to show that the invention of the printing press did not necessarily produce more stable literary texts than those transmitted orally or as hand-printed manuscripts—authors incorporated ideas of transformation into the process of composing and revising and encouraged creative interpretations from their readers, translators, and imitators. Extending the argument to the visual arts, Jeanneret considers da Vinci's sketches and paintings, changing depictions of the world map, the mythological sculptures in the gardens of Prince Orsini in Bomarzo, and many other Renaissance works. More than fifty illustrations supplement his analysis.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Michel Jeanneret is a professor of French literature at the University of Geneva. He is author of Poésie et tradition biblique au XVIe siècle, Des mets et des mots: Banquets et propos de table à la Renaissance, and Le Défi des signes: Rabelais et la crise de l'interprétation à la Renaissance.

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Titolo: Perpetual Motion: Transforming Shapes in the...
Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2001
Legatura: Rilegato
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