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Malcolm Bull

The Mirror of the Gods

Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art

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Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity. In the midst of Christian Europe, artists began to decorate luxury goods with scandalous stories from classical mythology, and rulers to identify themselves with the deities of ancient religion. The resulting fusion of erotic fantasy and political power changed the course of Western art and produced many of its most magical and subversive works.The first book ever to survey this extraordinary phenomenon in its entirety, The Mirror of the Gods takes the story from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Each chapter focuses on a… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-14-191262-2
  • EAN: 9780141912622
  • Produktnummer: 17831623
  • Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 480 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 16'361 KB

Über den Autor


Malcolm Bull is Head of Art History at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St. Edmund Hall.

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