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Genre/Form: | Art Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Andrea Mantegna; Jesus Christ; Andrea Mantegna; Jésus-Christ; Andrea Mantegna; Jesus Christ.; Andrea Mantegna; Andrea Mantegna |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jack Matthew Greenstein |
ISBN: | 0226307077 9780226307077 |
OCLC Number: | 24318822 |
Description: | xiv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Reading Renaissance Painting -- 1. The Significance of Historia in Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- 2. Alberti's View of the Structure of Significance in Pictorial Narrative -- 3. Historia and Mantegna's Sense of the Past -- 4. Representational Ambiguities in Mantegna's Circumcision of Christ. Appendix: On Which Part of the Temple Is Shown -- 5. Reading and Representing the Biblical Text: Vagaries of the Literal Sense -- 6. Making Narrative Sense of Significance: Iconographies of the Circumcision before Mantegna -- 7. Representational Imperatives and the Subject of Mantegna's Circumcision of Christ -- 8. Mantegna's Circumcision of Christ as Historical Narrative. |
Responsibility: | Jack M. Greenstein. |
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Abstract:
A series of meditations on the ways in which Europeans represented non-European peoples and claimed to take possession of their lands during the Age of Discovery.
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