Renaissance Art Overview

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

JAMES S. ACKERMAN, Palladio. A scholarly introduction to the most imitated architect in the world.

HAROLD ACTON, The Last Medici. Melancholy, irony, and sym pathy in equal parts, for a fascinating account of the gradual guttering out of a once brilliant family.
MICHAEL ADAMS, Umbria. One of the best books about the region.
BURTON ANDERSON; vino. The Wines and Winemakers of Italy. Even though it was published in 1980, it is still the best book on its subjectand with interesting asides on food, toocovering all 20 regions of the country.

VERNON BARTLETT, Introduction to Italy. An amusing and unusually comprehensive overview of the country’s history from ancient times to the present day.
LUIGI BARZINI, The Italians. Dr. Barzini explains his country men, with wit and knowledge based on deep affection.

JAMES BECK, Italian Renaissance Painting. A comprehensive and readable survey of one of the most important aspects of Western civilization. BERNARD BERENSON, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. One of the essential guides to Renaissance art.
The Passionate Sightseer Illustrated diaries of this essential art historian.
EVE BOORSOOK, Companion Guide to Florence. An excel lent, detailed guide to the city.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GENE A. BRUCKER, Renaissance Florence. An excellent one volume survey of the social, political, and economic history.

JACOB BURCKHARDT, Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. Remains a classic work on that period, though it represents a somewhat oldfashioned type of history.
At the Court of the Borgia. The days of Pope Alexan der VI (father of Cesare and Lucrezia).
CHARLES BURNEY, Music, Men, and Manners in France and Italy 1770. Burney’s account of his travels is one of the classics of the history of music.

BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, The Book of the Courtier. An eyewit ness account of one of the smaller ducal courts of the Renaissance and a penetrating excursion into Renaissance thought.

BENVENUTO CELLINI, The Life of Benvenuto Cellini. One of the most fascinating autobiographies; Renaissance truth is as interesting as Renaissance fiction.
EDWARD CHANEY, Florence: A Traveller’s Companion. Sites in the Tuscan capital as seen by writers throughout the centuries.

ELEANOR CLARK, Rome and a Villa. A novelist’s portrait of the capital.
TOBY COLE, ED., Florence: A Traveler’s Anthology and Ven ice: A Portable Reader Both are compilations of literary depictions.
DANTE ALIGHIERI, Divine Comedy. Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell, peopled with the author’s candidates for each.

CHARLES DICKENS, Pictures from Italy. Evocative portraits of scenes encountered.
UMBERTO Eco, The Name of the Rose. An intriguing novel set in the time of the Avignon papacy.

CAROL FIELD, Celebrating Italy. More than a cookbook, this sensitive and highly readable volume is an exciting adventure into the heart of Italy through its many legends, feasts, food, and mysteries.

E. M. FORSTER, A Room with a View. Florence as a setting for personal revelations.
SIDNEY J. FREEDBERG, Painting of the High Renaissance in Rome and Florence. The two volumes of this history by the former Harvard professor are as highly personal as they are scholarly, the prose rising at times to near poetic vividness.
ROME
Fountains whirling their watery arcs; Romans shouting and gesturing wildly; cars, buses, and motor scooters, hurtling like chariots on a life an death course Rome rushes at you . .It can be overwhelming, overblown, exaggerated. Colossal as the Colosseum, pompous as the Baroque popes, melodramatic as a street vendor. But just when you’ve had enough and given up on it, something unexpected happens.

You see the Tiber sparkling sapphire in the night light, a waiter. brings you a fresh taste from the oven as a gift, you’re charmed by a cat admiring a column once reserved for the Caesars, the apricot glow of a building warms you, and you decide to reconcile. Federico Fellini once praised the city’s expansive aspect: Rome allows you all sorts of speculation, vertically. Rome is a horizontal city, made of water and earth, spread out, and is therefore the ideal platform for flights of fancy.

Intellectuals, artists, who always live in a state of friction between two different dimensions reality and fantasy here find an  appropriate and liberating stimulus for their mental activity, with the comfort of an umbilical cord that keeps them solidly attached to the concrete. Because Rome is a mother the ideal mother because she’s indifferent. She’s a mother who has too many children and who, not being able to take care of anyone of them, doesn’t ask anything of you, doesn’t expect anything of you. She welcomes you when you come, lets you go when you leave.

Though .quoted when he made his film Rorna in the early 1970s, Felllni s words have an ageless quality about them as befits ,the Eternal City. They recall the flights of fancy that created the legend about the foundation of Rome by Romu lus and Remus, nursed by the she wolf, the original mother of Rome.

Throughout the city the ancient and the modern are juxta posed: A classical column protrudes from a building erected centuries later. A sleek, modern train station abuts a Roman bath that was redesigned by Michelangelo as a church.

Between the deep red of the ancient brick and the stark white of modern marble and concrete are the mellower tones, now fixed by law, that dominate Rome and might have come out of a fruit basket in a Caravaggio painting. Peach, apricot, pomegranate, and honey hues decorate its palazzos and villas, the colors made even more striking in combination with the stately Renaissance style imported from Florence, or the exuberant Baroque born in Rome and favored by the popes. Rome’s present look is a blend of all such styles, with a touch (but just a touch) of order added when the government of a newly united Italy lined the Tiber with travertine embankments when the city became its capital

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