Title: The survival of the pagan gods : the mythological tradition and its place in Renaissance humanism and art /
Authors: Seznec, Jean.
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Humanism.; Art, Medieval; Art, Renaissance; Gods, Roman, in art.; Gods, Greek, in art.; Mythology, Classical, in art; Mythology, Classical; Gods in art.
Contents: Book I -- 1. The concepts -- The historical tradition -- The physical tradition -- The moral tradition -- The encyclopedic tradition -- 2. The forms -- The metamorphoses of the gods -- The reintegration of the gods -- Book II -- The science of mythology in the sixteenth century -- Theories regarding the use of mythology -- The influence of the manuals.