Florence as “Paradise Lost”
The city of Florence has been a place of artistic pilgrimage for centuries. This essay discusses late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American interest in Florence and, specifically, two of its masterpieces in Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus as indica...
| Published in: | Religion and the arts |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Brill
2018
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| In: |
Religion and the arts
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ghiberti, Lorenzo 1378-1455, Paradiestür
/ Botticelli, Sandro 1445-1510, Die Geburt der Venus
/ Florence
/ Earthly paradise
/ Verlorenes Paradies
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| Further subjects: | B
Florence
Dante
Domenico Michelino
Renaissance
Grand Tour
tourism
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Sandro Botticelli
Walter Pater
Bernard Berenson
Chalres Eliot Norton
E.M. Forster
Venus
Pluto and Proserpina
Jeff Koons
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | The city of Florence has been a place of artistic pilgrimage for centuries. This essay discusses late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American interest in Florence and, specifically, two of its masterpieces in Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus as indicative of a melancholic perspective on the Florentine Renaissance as a “Paradise Lost.” The city was ambivalently idealized as an “Earthly Paradise.” |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5292 |
| Contains: | In: Religion and the arts
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02201014 |