Artistic exchange and cultural translation in the Italian renaissance city
By: edited by Stephen J. Campbell, Stephen J. Milner
Contributors: Campbell, Stephen J. 1963-; Milner, Stephen J., 1963-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Art, Italian; Art, Renaissance -- Italy; Art and society -- Italy; Culture diffusion -- Italy; Regionalism -- Italy
Description: "Considering the reception of the early modern culture of Florence, Rome, and Venice in other centers of the Italic peninsula, this book reexamines the Renaissance as a form of translation of a past culture. It assumes that the Renaissance attempted to assimilate the lost, or fragmentary, worlds of the Roman emperors, the Greek Platonists, and the ancient Egyptians. These essays, accordingly, explore how the processes of cultural self-definition varied between the Italian urban centers in the early modern period, well before the formation of a distinct Italian national identity."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-366) and index