1st Edition
Raphael's Poetics Art and Poetry in High Renaissance Rome
By David Rijser
Copyright 2012
520 Pages
by
Routledge
520 Pages
by
Routledge
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Raphael’s Poetics applies strategies of interpretation implicit in antique poetry to the visual art of the Renaissance, concentrating on Raphael’s Roman works and their cultural context. Until recently, scholarly discussion was dominated by the application of Renaissance literary theory to visual arts, obscuring the fact that Renaissance humanists who contributed to literary theory were, in the... Read more
Abbreviations, Preface, Introduction: Aeneas’ Example, Chapter 1. Nature’s Anxiety, Chapter 2. Rule without End, Chapter 3. Let No One without Poem Enter, Chapter 4. Airy Nothing Gets a Local habitation and a Name, Bibliography, List of Figures, List of Plates, Index locorum et imaginum, Index Nominum et rerum
Biography
David Rijser is professor by special appointment at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen holding a chair of Classical Receptions.
