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Earthly delights : a history of the Renaissance / Jonathan Jones.

By: Jones, Jonathan, 1976- [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 336 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780500023136 (hardback).Subject(s): Art, RenaissanceDDC classification: 709.024
Contents:
The Arnolfini nude -- The naked citizen -- The triumph of love -- Nature's child -- Worldly knowledge -- Haywain to hell -- The Garden of Earthly Delights -- Render unto Caesar -- Melancholia -- The pulse of life -- Judgements -- Carnival and Lent -- Curiosities.
Summary: "What was the 'Renaissance'? In the nineteenth century this flowering of creativity and thought was celebrated as the birth of the modern world. Today many historians are skeptical about its very existence. Earthly Delights rekindles the Renaissance as a seismic change in European mentalities, in a panoramic history that encompasses Florence and Bruges, London and Nuremberg. Artists from northern as well as southern Europe, including Leonardo, Bosch, Bruegel and Titian, star in a captivating and beautifully illustrated narrative that sets their lives against a period of convulsive change across a continent that was finding itself as it 'discovered' the world. Art critic and writer Jonathan Jones tells the story of Renaissance artists as pioneers, adventurers and 'geniuses', a Renaissance concept. Albrecht Durer gazes with wonder on Aztec art in Brussels in 1520, Leonardo da Vinci tries to perfect a flying machine, Hieronymus Bosch finds inspiration in West African ivory carvings imported by the Portuguese to Antwerp. A then unknown Netherlandish painter, Pieter Bruegel, arrives in 1550s Rome just as Michelangelo is striving in the same city to raise the new St Peter's Basilica towards heaven. From Atlantic voyages to Germanic woods, Italian palazzi to the royal castle of Prague, this was an age when people dared to experiment with the occult and dabble in utopias: to think and create new worlds" - publisher's description.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: written by one of the UK's foremost art critics, this new narrative history of the Renaissance takes in the whole of Europe and its global context.

What was the 'Renaissance'? In the nineteenth century this flowering of creativity and thought was celebrated as the birth of the modern world. Today many historians are sceptical about its very existence. Earthly Delights rekindles the Renaissance as a seismic change in European mentalities, in a panoramic history that encompasses Florence and Bruges, London and Nuremberg. Artists from northern as well as southern Europe, including Leonardo, Bosch, Bruegel and Titian, star in a captivating and beautifully illustrated narrative that sets their lives against a period of convulsive change across a continent that was finding itself as it 'discovered' the world.

Art critic and writer Jonathan Jones tells the story of Renaissance artists as pioneers, adventurers and 'geniuses', a Renaissance concept. Albrecht Dürer gazes with wonder on Aztec art in Brussels in 1520, Leonardo da Vinci tries to perfect a flying machine, Hieronymus Bosch finds inspiration in West African ivory carvings imported by the Portuguese to Antwerp. A then unknown Netherlandish painter, Pieter Bruegel, arrives in 1550s Rome just as Michelangelo is striving in the same city to raise the new St Peter's Basilica towards heaven. From Atlantic voyages to Germanic woods, Italian palazzi to the royal castle of Prague, this was an age when people dared to experiment with the occult and dabble in utopias: to think and create new worlds.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Arnolfini nude -- The naked citizen -- The triumph of love -- Nature's child -- Worldly knowledge -- Haywain to hell -- The Garden of Earthly Delights -- Render unto Caesar -- Melancholia -- The pulse of life -- Judgements -- Carnival and Lent -- Curiosities.

"What was the 'Renaissance'? In the nineteenth century this flowering of creativity and thought was celebrated as the birth of the modern world. Today many historians are skeptical about its very existence. Earthly Delights rekindles the Renaissance as a seismic change in European mentalities, in a panoramic history that encompasses Florence and Bruges, London and Nuremberg. Artists from northern as well as southern Europe, including Leonardo, Bosch, Bruegel and Titian, star in a captivating and beautifully illustrated narrative that sets their lives against a period of convulsive change across a continent that was finding itself as it 'discovered' the world. Art critic and writer Jonathan Jones tells the story of Renaissance artists as pioneers, adventurers and 'geniuses', a Renaissance concept. Albrecht Durer gazes with wonder on Aztec art in Brussels in 1520, Leonardo da Vinci tries to perfect a flying machine, Hieronymus Bosch finds inspiration in West African ivory carvings imported by the Portuguese to Antwerp. A then unknown Netherlandish painter, Pieter Bruegel, arrives in 1550s Rome just as Michelangelo is striving in the same city to raise the new St Peter's Basilica towards heaven. From Atlantic voyages to Germanic woods, Italian palazzi to the royal castle of Prague, this was an age when people dared to experiment with the occult and dabble in utopias: to think and create new worlds" - publisher's description.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction: The Birth of Uncertainty (6)
  • 1 The Arnolfini Nude (14)
  • 2 The Naked Citizen (36)
  • 3 The Triumph of Love (60)
  • 4 Nature's Child (84)
  • 5 Worldly Knowledge (104)
  • 6 Haywain to Hell (126)
  • 7 The Garden of Earthly Delights (150)
  • 8 Render unto Caesar (174)
  • 9 Melancholia (200)
  • 10 The Pulse of Life (222)
  • 11 Judgments (242)
  • 12 Carnival and Lent (266)
  • 13 Curiosities (292)
  • Notes (318)
  • Further Reading (322)
  • Acknowledgments (324)
  • List of Illustrations (325)
  • Index (331)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

European Renaissance art scholarship began in the 19th century with sweeping overviews of what was called the "rebirth" of art and culture, and since then writers have focused on Renaissance art as an expression of elite society. In Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance, Jones instead argues that the new perspective views and realistic images were not just for a royal audience, but for a wide variety of spectators. Jones tests the traditional definitions of the term Renaissance by engaging with the medieval legacy of Renaissance art, encouraging a fresh examination of northern European influences in Italy, and examining elements of classicism in the North. He discusses the important role of female patrons and the reasons for the appearance of feminized men in religious images. Nudity was much more widespread in art than is typically noted, and erotic escapism was a key theme of the era. Renaissance artists and scientists were also actively engaged in magical thinking and paganism. Through a careful analysis of major Renaissance paintings and sculptures, Jones reorients the reader back to the notion that the Renaissance was a transformative era, a vanguard of modernism. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals. --Allison Lee Palmer, University of Oklahoma

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jonathan Jones is the art critic for the Guardian newspaper. He is the author of several books including The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Renaissance (2010), The Loves of the Artists: Art and Passion in the Renaissance (2013), Sensations: The Story of British Art from Hogarth to Banksy (2019) and Artemisia Gentileschi (2020). Jones was also a member of the jury for the 2009 Turner Prize and has appeared in the BBC series Private Life of a Masterpiece . He was Series Consultant for BBC2's Civilisations and is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 4's Front Row .

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