The mythological origins of Renaissance Florence : the city as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem /

The mythological origins of Renaissance Florence : the city as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem /

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Author / Creator:	Chernetsky, Irina, 1976- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xiii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence. Politics and culture -- Italy -- Florence. Public spaces -- Italy -- Florence. Monuments -- Italy -- Florence. Monuments. Politics and culture. Public spaces. Renaissance. Florence (Italy) -- Symbolic representation. Italy -- Florence.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13119399

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ISBN:	9781316510957 1316510956 9781009018838 1009018833 9781009039116 9781009041485 (PDF ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-209) and index.
Summary:	"In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted Florence as the reincarnation of the great cities of pagan and Christian antiquity - Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. The architectural image of an ideal Florence was discussed in chronicles and histories, poetry and prose, and treatises on art and religious sermons. It was also portrayed in paintings, sculpture, and sketches, as well as encoded in buildings erected during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Over time, the concept of an ideal Florence became inseparable from the real city, in both its social and architectural structures. Chernetsky demonstrates how the Renaissance notion of genealogy was applied to Florence, which was considered to be part of a family of illustrious cities of both the past and present. She also explores the concept of the ideal city in its intellectual, political, and aesthetic contexts, while offering new insights into the experience of urban space"--
Other form:	Online version: Chernetsky, Irina, 1976- Mythological origins of Renaissance Florence Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781009039116

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