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Brill Academic Pub, 2004. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition edition. 454 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches.
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Creating the Divine Artist: From Dante to Michelangelo Hardcover - 2004
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- Title Creating the Divine Artist: From Dante to Michelangelo
- Author Patricia Emison
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 454
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brill
- Date May 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9789004137097 / 9004137092
- Weight 2.15 lbs (0.98 kg)
- Dimensions 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.3 in (24.38 x 16.26 x 3.30 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004043500
- Dewey Decimal Code 700.902
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E-351: Brill. Very Good. 2004. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Brill, Leiden, Netherlands. 2004. 469 pgs. Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples, v. 19. Bound in illustrated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Turning a skeptical eye on the idea that Renaissance artists were widely believed to be as utterly admirable as Vasari claimed, this book re-opens the question of why artists were praised and by whom, and specifically why the language of divinity was invoked, a practice the ancients did not license. The epithet ''divino'' is examined in the context of claims to liberal arts status and to analogy with poets, musicians, and other ''uomini famossi.' ' The reputations of Michelangelo and Brunelleschi are compared not only with each other but…
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