Inventing the Renaissance Putto (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780807826164
Subjects: Painting & paintings; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Renaissance art; c 1000 CE to c 1500; European; 15th-16th Century Art; Art & Art Instruction; Italian; Art; Italy; History - Renaissance; Renaissance; History / Renaissance; Angels in art; Arts, Italian; Arts, Renaissance; Popular culture
First sentence: AFTER THE publication of Laokoon in 1766, the great Gotthold Ephraim Lessing became embroiled in a long polemic with Christian Adolf Klotz (1738-1771), then a young professor at the University of Halle, who provoked from him the fifty-seven Antiquarian Letters, as well as his famous essay of 1769, How the Ancients Represented Death.