Andreas Vesalius and the 'Fabrica' in the Age of Printing: Art, Anatomy, and Printing in the Italian Renaissance ed. by Rinaldo Fernando Canalis, and Massimo Ciavolella

Parergon ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-231
Author(s):  
W. Randall Albury
Keyword(s):  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Andreas Vesalius

Andreas Vesalius and the Anatomy of Antique Sculpture

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Harcourt
Keyword(s):  
Andreas Vesalius

The Grace of the Italian Renaissance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ita Mac Carthy
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Vittoria Colonna ◽  
The World ◽  
Changing World

‘Grace’ emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. This book explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic concerns of an age concerned with the reactivation of ancient ideas in a changing world. The book reassesses artists such as Francesco del Cossa, Raphael, and Michelangelo and explores anew writers like Castiglione, Ariosto, Tullia d'Aragona, and Vittoria Colonna. It shows how these artists and writers put grace at the heart of their work. The book argues that grace came to be as contested as it was prized across a range of Renaissance Italian contexts. It characterised emerging styles in literature and the visual arts, shaped ideas about how best to behave at court and sparked controversy about social harmony and human salvation. For all these reasons, grace abounded in the Italian Renaissance, yet it remained hard to define. The book explores what grace meant to theologians, artists, writers, and philosophers, showing how it influenced their thinking about themselves, each other and the world. It portrays grace not as a stable formula of expression but as a web of interventions in culture and society.

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