Ravenna in the imagination of Renaissance art /

"It is clear that Renaissance artists and their patrons were interested in Ravenna's buildings and their decorations, both before Vasari's negative pronouncements and after them. Contemporary European travelers and diarists have left descriptions of the city's heritage, by then i...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Nagel, Alexander (Editor), Periti, Giancarla, 1966- (Editor, Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Italian Latin
Language Notes:	Includes quotations in Italian or Latin.
Published:	Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2020]
Subjects:	Basilica di S. Vitale (Ravenna, Italy) Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321 > Tomb. Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321. Mosaics, Byzantine > Italy > Ravenna > Historiography. Art, Renaissance > Byzantine influences. Church decoration and ornament > Italy > Ravenna. Christian art and symbolism > Italy > Ravenna. Christian art and symbolism. Church decoration and ornament. Tombs. Italy > Ravenna.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Ravenna made visible / Alexander Nagel, Giancarla Periti
Byzantine sources in Ravenna influence Venetian renaissance sculpture / Sarah Blake McHam
Reframing the past : viewing mosaics in renaissance Ravenna / Nicholas Herman
Creating the legitimate prince at the Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini : Ravenna and the continuity of imperial tradition / Linda A. Koch
Ravenna, Vasari, and the problem of the late antique heritage / Giancarla Periti
Ravenna's unlikely monument : the Tomb of Dante at the Church of San Francesco / Debra Pincus
San Vitale in Ravenna : the renaissance interpretation of a church between east and west / Silvia Foschi
Art or history? The mosaics of San Vitale in Ravenna between the middle ages and the avantgardes / Claudio Franzoni.