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Aerial Perspective
Alberti Brothers
Annunciation Play
art historical methodology
Artistico Ed Etnoantropologico
Author_Alessandra Buccheri
Baroque stagecraft
bernardo
Bernardo Buontalenti
buontalenti
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chapel
Chiesa Nuova
Chigi Chapel
Cigoli
Cloud Compositions
cloud representation in Italian art
compositions
Correggio's Work
Correggio’s Work
cristoforo
Cristoforo Roncalli
Direzione Centrale
early modern iconography
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Federico Zuccari
Gabinetto Dei Disegni
Giulio Parigi
heaven
Heaven Machinery
Il Cigoli
Il Patrimonio Storico
Il Polo Museale Della
La Pellegrina
machinery
Matteo Zaccolini
Musei Vaticani
parma
pauline
Pauline Chapel
religious symbolism in painting
Renaissance visual culture
roncalli
Stanza Della Segnatura
theatrical scenography
Tuscan Tradition
Product details
- ISBN 9781472418838
- Weight: 703g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The studies in which history of art and theatre are considered together are few, and none to date investigate the evolution of the representation of clouds from the early Renaissance to the Baroque period. This book reconsiders the origin of Italian Renaissance and Baroque cloud compositions while including the theatrical tradition as one of their most important sources. By examining visual sources such as paintings, frescos and stage designs, together with letters, guild-ledgers, descriptions of performances and relevant treatises, a new methodology to approach the development of this early modern visuality is offered. The result is an historical reconstruction where multiple factors are seen as facets of a single process which led to the development of Italy’s visual culture. The book also offers new insights into Leonardo da Vinci’s theatrical works, Raphael’s Disputa, Vasari’s Lives, and Pietro da Cortona’s fresco paintings. The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439-1650 examines the different ways Heaven has been conceived, imagined and represented from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, crossing over into the fields of history, religion and philosophy.
Dr Alessandra Buccheri is specialised in early Modern Italian art. She studied at the universities of Florence and Oxford, where she received her PhD. She is currently a lecturer at the Fine Art University of Palermo, Italy.
