The Italian Renaissance Imagery of Inspiration
Subtitle: Metaphors of Sex, Sleep, and Dream
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521821605
Subjects: Renaissance art; Theory of art; Italy; Art, Renaissance; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Symbolism in art; Techniques - Painting; Art / General; Art, Italian; General; Inspiration in art
First sentence: Tito Strozzi (1424-1505), a poet at the Este court at Ferrara, Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), the Venetian author of prose and verse, and Benedetto Varchi (1503-1565), the Florentine historian best known for his lectures to the Accademia Florentina on the paragone, were men of letters, professional intellectuals.