Celestial Renaissance
Author : Kelly Lee Phipps
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Astrology
ISBN : 9781891313110
Author : Kelly Lee Phipps
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Astrology
ISBN : 9781891313110
Author : Mary Quinlan-McGrath
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226922855
Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light radiation held by certain natural philosophers of early modern Europe, and that, argues Mary Quinlan-McGrath, was why educated people of the Renaissance commissioned artworks centered on astrological themes and practices. Influences is the first book to reveal how important Renaissance artworks were designed to be not only beautiful but also—perhaps even primarily—functional. From the fresco cycles at Caprarola, to the Vatican’s Sala dei Pontefici, to the Villa Farnesina, these great works were commissioned to selectively capture and then transmit celestial radiation, influencing the bodies and minds of their audiences. Quinlan-McGrath examines the sophisticated logic behind these theories and practices and, along the way, sheds light on early creation theory; the relationship between astrology and natural theology; and the protochemistry, physics, and mathematics of rays. An original and intellectually stimulating study, Influences adds a new dimension to the understanding of aesthetics among Renaissance patrons and a new meaning to the seductive powers of art.
Author : Meredith J. Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107027950
This book examines the role of angels in medieval and Renaissance art and religion from Dante to the Counter-Reformation.
Author : Ovanes Akopyan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004442278
An account of the astrological controversies that arose in Renaissance Italy in the wake of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem, published in 1496.
Author : Monica Azzolini
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0674067916
The Duke and the Stars explores science and medicine as studied and practiced in fifteenth-century Italy, including how astrology was taught in relation to astronomy. It illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was often a critical, secretive source of information for Italian Renaissance rulers, particularly in times of crisis.
Author : Roger S. Wieck
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN :
This book features 107 of the finest examples of illuminated pages from medieval and Renaissance Books of Hours. Roger Wieck's comprehensive text introduces the Book of Hours -- a "bestseller" for three hundred years -- to the general reader, discussing its iconography, the artists who illuminated this genre, and its role as a religious text in the lives of its owners. As a collection of both stirring words and inspiring images, the Book of Hours thus comprised a series of "painted prayers".
Author : David G. Hartwell
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2007-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765306180
The best-ever anthology of one of science fiction's most vigorous subgenres
Author : Philip Hardie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691197865
A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination—poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious—displayed a pronounced fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens. Celestial Aspirations explores how British literature and art during that period exploited classical representations of these soaring themes—through philosophical, scientific and poetic flights of the mind; the ascension of the disembodied soul; and the celestial glorification of the ruler. From textual reachings for the heavens in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne and Cowley, to the ceiling paintings of Rubens, Verrio and Thornhill, Philip Hardie focuses on the ways that the history, ideologies and aesthetics of the postclassical world received and transformed the ideas of antiquity. In England, narratives of ascent appear on the grandest scale in Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic built around a Christian plot of falling and rising, and one of the most intensely classicizing works of English poetry. Examining the reception of flight up to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and Tennyson, Hardie considers the Whig sublime, as well as the works of Alexander Pope and Edward Young. Throughout, he looks at motivations both public and private for aspiring to the heavens—as a reward for political and military achievement on the one hand, and as a goal of individual intellectual and spiritual exertion on the other. Celestial Aspirations offers an intriguing look at how creative minds reworked ancient visions of time and space in the early modern era.
Author : R. Taton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521542050
The International Astronomical Union and the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science have sponsored a major work on the history of astronomy, which the Press publishs are in four volumes, three of which will be divided into two parts. Publication commenced with volume 4, part A. The history of astronomy has never been tackled on this scale and depth and this major synthesis breaks wholly new ground. The individual chapters of each volume have been prepared by leading experts in every field of the history of astronomy.
Author : Steven Broecke, vanden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 900445361X
This is a case study of astrology's changing status as an academic discipline in the sixteenth century. It provides fascinating new insights in the practice of Renaissance astrology, its social position, and its profound impact on the changes in early modern European science.