Binding: Hardcover
Description: How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy" Grace" emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth - century Italy. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance 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. Grace Ita Mac Carthy argues 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. Mac Carthy explores what grace meant to theologians artists writers and philosophers showing how it influenced their thinking about themselves each other and the world. Ambitiously conceived and elegantly written this book portrays grace not as a stable formula of expression but as a web of interventions in culture and society.
Title: The Grace Of The Italian Renaissance
Author(s): Mac Carthy Ita
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691175485
Pages: 272 Pages, 22 B/W Illus., Color Insert With 10 Illustrations
Publication Date: 1/14/2020
Category: Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church