1st Edition

Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art North and South of the Alps

By Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes Copyright 2024
208 Pages 6 Color & 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 6 Color & 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 6 Color & 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about, and why they were so popular. In contrast to the numerous studies on the historical and legendary figure of Alexander, surprisingly few studies have examined, in one volume, the visual representation of the Macedonian king in frescoes, oil paintings, engravings, manuscripts,... Read more

1. Introduction;  2. Alexander’s Ancient Authors, Renaissance Humanists, and Altdorfer’s Painting;  3. Alexander among the Nine Worthies and the Uomini famosi;  4. Alexander in Renaissance Rome;  5. Depicting the Macedonian King beyond Rome;  6. Alexander’s Court Painter, Apelles, and his Fame among Renaissance Artists;  7. The King’s Horse, Bucephalus;  8. Alexander in Renaissance Tapestries and Petrarch’s Triumph of Fame;  9. Alexander at the Château de Fontainebleau;  Epilogue

Biography

Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes is a Lecturer in Art History at the Kunstgeschichtliches Institut at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. She is an Associate Professor Emerita of the University of Stavanger, Norway.