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The essays in Visualizing the Past in Italian Renaissance Art address a foundational concept that was as central to early modern thinking as it is to our own: that the past is always an important part of the present. Written by the friends, students, and colleagues of Dr. Brian Curran, former professor of Art History at the Pennsylvania State University, these authors demonstrate how reverberations of the past within the present are intrinsic to the ways in which we think about the history of art. Examinations of sculpture, painting, and architecture reveal the myriad ways that history has been appropriated, reinvented, and rewritten as subsequent generations—including the authors collected here—have attained new insight into the past and present.
Contributors: Denise Costanzo, William E. Wallace, Theresa A. Kutasz Christensen, Ingrid Rowland, Anthony Cutler, Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, Louis Alexander Waldman, Elizabeth Petersen Cyron, Stuart Lingo, Jessica Boehman, Katherine M. Bentz, Robin L. Thomas, and John Pinto.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Brian Curran, Past, Present, Place
Douglas N. Dow and Jennifer Cochran Anderson
Publications by Brian A. Curran
1 Horrors and Heroes, Renaissance and Recent: Rome as Architecture School
Denise R. Costanzo
2 Michelangelo's Columns
William E. Wallace
3 Allegory, Antiquities, and a Gothic Apollo: Queen Christina of Sweden and the Manufacture of Cultural Identity
Theresa A. Kutasz Christensen
4 The Atlantic Visions of Giorgio Grognet de Vassé (1774-1862), Maltese Forger, Architect, and Antiquarian
Ingrid Rowland
5 Drawing the Elephant: On the Natures of Naturalism before and in the Cinquecento
Anthony Cutler
6 A Faun in Love: The Visual Sources
Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
7 Marco del Buono Giamberti's 1478 Testament and New Evidence about Paolo Uccello
Louis Alexander Waldman
8 The Architecture of Civic Virtue in Donatello's Saint George and the Dragon
Elizabeth Petersen Cyron
9 American Bodies, Aztec Feathers, and Artistic Invention in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Stuart Lingo
10 Cafà's Saint Rose of Lima as Effigy
Jessica M. Boehman
11 Gardens, Air, and the Healing Power of Green in Early Modern Rome
Katherine M. Bentz
12 The Guglie of Naples and the Visual Rhetoric of Height
Robin L. Thomas
13 Nicola Michetti's Facade of the Palazzo Colonna in Rome (1731-1735)
John Pinto
Tabula in Memoriam
Craig Zabel
Index
