Augustine in the Italian Renaissance
Subtitle: Art and Philosophy from Petrarch to Michelangelo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521832144
Subjects: Christianity; Influence; Christianity - History - General; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Italy; General; Art / General; Augustine,; History - General; Renaissance
First sentence: For his audiences from the later medieval period through the mid-sixteenth century, the Church Father and theologian, Augustine (354-430), could be both ubiquitous and elusive, doctrinal and poetic, distantly authoritative and intimately familiar.