The Spiritual Language of Art Medieval Christian Themes in Writings on Art of the Italian Renaissance 1st Edition by Steven Stowell ISBN 9004283919 978-9004283916
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ISBN 10: 9004283919
ISBN 13: 978-9004283916
Author: Steven F. H. Stowell
Analyzing the literature on art from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, The Spiritual Language of Art explores the complex relationship between visual art and spiritual experiences during the Italian Renaissance. Though scholarly research on these writings has predominantly focused on the influence of classical literature, this study reveals that Renaissance authors consistently discussed art using terms, concepts and metaphors derived from spiritual literature. By examining these texts in the light of medieval sources, greater insight is gained on the spiritual nature of the artist’s process and the reception of art. Offering a close re-readings of many important writers (Alberti, Leonardo, Vasari, etc.), this study deepens our understanding of attitudes toward art and spirituality in the Italian Renaissance.
Table of contents:
1 Art and Compunction: Francesco Bocchi’s Mystical Experience of Art
2 Compunction in Renaissance Literature on Art
3 Compunction and Popular Devotion at the Santissima Annunziata in Florence
4 Francesco Bocchi’s Ekphrasis, Catharsis and Compunction
5 Purging and Nourishing
6 Leon Battista Alberti’s ‘De pictura’ and the Christian Tradition of the Liberal Arts
7 An Image Formed in the Mind and an Imitation of Nature
8 The Liberal Arts in Alberti and the Christian Tradition
9 Study and Composition: Painting as a Form of Meditation
10 A Part and a Whole: Alberti’s Beauty
11 The Word of God and the Book of the World in the Writings of Leonardo da Vinci
12 Leonardo as a Reader of Spiritual Literature
13 Tears and Laughter in Leonardo
14 The World Is a Book
15 Judgment and Love: Ogni Dipintore Dipinge Se
16 In One Instant Alone
17 Imagining the Souls of Holy People
18 Part One
19 Lifting the Veil of the Body
20 The Soul of a Work of Art: The Agency of Sacred Art
21 The Sweetness of Honey: Painted Flesh, Veils and Interiority
22 Perfection of Body and Soul: The Souls of Artists and of Paintings
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