The controversy of Renaissance art / Alexander Nagel.

Author/creator Nagel, Alexander
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
Art, Renaissance--Italy.
Art--Italy.
Christian art and symbolism--Italy.

Contents A nontriumphant Renaissance -- The reformation that never happened in Italy -- Pre- and post-Trent -- Range of the study -- I: Excavations in Christian art -- 1: Effects of estrangement -- "These are your idols, which you have put in my temple" -- Theater and its double -- Art historians and their precursors -- The time of the other -- Attending effigies interior cult and exterior cult -- Whores and idols -- 2: Erasure, defacement, unmasking -- Reform as art restoration -- Defamiliarized icons -- The "puppet painter" gets a hearing -- Erasmus unmasks the saints -- 3: Excavations of the image -- A picture of indeterminate subject and uncertain finish -- Threshold painting -- Figures in a loose and unready state -- Images from the underside -- Drawing brought to the surface -- Reconfigurations -- Christian art that is no longer -- Related experiments -- 4: Re-mediations of the altarpiece -- The painter's new profession -- Raphael extracts the icon -- Vision as re-mediation -- Structures of archaism -- Christocentrism -- Transmutation chamber -- II: Christ as idol -- 5: Animated statues -- Sculpture and the pictorial imaginary -- The idol in Saint Augustine's study -- Statue + column = idolatry -- In the round and from behind -- Showdown in the arena of painting -- Ficino's ambivalent defense of image magic -- The crucifix as anti-statue -- 6: The antique statue of Christ -- "Christ, who deserved a statue, received instead a cross" -- A statue of Christ from the Holy Land -- Replication and retroactivation -- An antique Christ at the Minerva -- Rhetorical interferences -- Form as symbol -- 7: Avatars of the golden calf in the works of Andrea Riccio -- Gregorio Cortese commissions art at Santa Giustina, 1513 -- Moses and polytheism -- A Moses-idol -- Repetition compulsion -- Christ as idol -- The work of conversion -- Uncompromising logic -- Fire takes the form of bronze -- Recursions -- Religion on earth -- III: Soft iconoclasm -- Architecture as image -- Forms of iconophobia in Italy -- A semiotic contest -- Replacement and reversion -- Early interventions at Florence and Siena -- Figuration and fulfillment, and vice versa -- "All the other things are shadows" -- 9: The tabernacle in the matrix -- "So long as it is not about saints" -- Raimondi's I modi in Giberti's Rome -- Pornography as iconoclasm -- Nonprocreative art -- A new model of church art at Verona cathedral -- The virgin becomes architecture -- Borromeo interprets Giberti -- 10: The most abstract altarpiece of the Italian Renaissance -- The Vicenza altar and reform circles in northern Italy -- Adventures in aniconism -- The virtues of stones -- The world is an animal -- Displacement.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010017310
ISBN9780226567723 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226567729 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks N6915 .N27 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold