The Mother Goddess in Italian Renaissance art
By: Edith Balas.
Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Mother goddesses in art -- History; Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Themes, motives; Art, Italian -- 15th century -- Themes, motives; Art, Italian -- 16th century -- Themes, motives
Description: "In this study, Edith Balas draws upon a wide range of humanistic learning to examine the significance of the Mother Goddess and her cult in the works of such major figures as Botticelli, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Titian, and Raphael, as well in those of a host of lesser artists, including Neroccio de' Landi, Baltassare Peruzzi, Giorgio Vasari, and Pirro Ligorio. Dr. Balas not only provides additional keys to solving the often dauntingly complex riddles posed by many Quattrocento and Cinquecento images - images originally intended to be understood only by a learned elite - but also furnishes scholars with a valuable methodological model for analyzing the presence and meaning of other ancient religious cults in Renaissance art."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167) and index.