1st Edition
Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art
Introduction 1. The Heavens, Ancient and Modern 2. Ancient Art and the Problem of Hamlet 3. Crossing the Cosmos in Santa Costanza Interlude. A New Theology of Nature 4. Michelangelo’s Renewal of All Things 5. Natural Things in Caravaggio’s Early Religious Paintings 6. Borromini’s Restlessness and the Classical Tradition Epilogue: Nature and Ruin
Biography
Gabriel Pihas is the academic director at the Rome Institute of Liberal Arts and a tutor in the Integral Program of the Liberal Arts at St. Mary's College of California.
"This book, then, advances a revolutionary mode of art history. We are not as we once were: that is this mode’s first instinct. Looking at the sequence of artifacts, we recognize that in the culture at large, there has been a lurch—a fall, perhaps amounting to a trauma, or alternately an ascent, an upward gearchange."
--New York Review of Books
