Green worlds in Early Modern Italy art and the verdant earth

The green mantle of the earth! This metaphor conceives of the vegetation of the earth as a green cloth that drapes the barren earth. Long popular in patristic literature Il mantello verde della terra is a poetical image that ponders the providential greening of the earth on the third day of the Crea...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Weitere Verfasser: Goodchild, Karen Hope (HerausgeberIn), Oettinger, April (HerausgeberIn), Prosperetti, Leopoldine (HerausgeberIn)
Format: UnknownFormat
Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2019
Schriftenreihe:Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 11
Schlagworte:
Online Zugang:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:The green mantle of the earth! This metaphor conceives of the vegetation of the earth as a green cloth that drapes the barren earth. Long popular in patristic literature Il mantello verde della terra is a poetical image that ponders the providential greening of the earth on the third day of the Creation. Borrowing from the vocabulary of weaving it epitomizes the Renaissance interest in "fashioning green worlds" in art and poetry. Rachel Carson invoked the phrase to draw attention to environmental damage done to earth's "brilliant robe." Here it serves as a motto for a cultural poetics that made "living nature" an object of renewed interest. The essays gathered in this volume explore the expanding technologies and cultural dimensions of verzure and verdancy in the Italian Renaissance, and the role of painting in shaping the poetics and expression of greenery in the visual arts of the 16th-century and after
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 255-275
Beschreibung:286 Seiten, 32 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln
Illustrationen
25 cm
ISBN:9789462984950