Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art

ISBN-13: 9781032101422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str.

Gabriel Pihas

Opis

This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a natural world or cosmos situating human life, and the equally fundamental modern emphasis on human imagination and its creative power.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The Heavens, Ancient and Modern 2. Ancient Art and the Problem of Hamlet 3. Crossing the Cosmos in Santa Costanza Interlude. A New Theology of Nature 4. Michelangelo’s Renewal of All Things 5. Natural Things in Caravaggio’s Early Religious Paintings 6. Borromini’s Restlessness and the Classical Tradition Epilogue: Nature and Ruin

O autorze

Gabriel Pihas is the academic director at the Rome Institute of Liberal Arts and a tutor in the Integral Program of the Liberal Arts at St. Mary's College of California.