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The Moment of Death in Renaissance Art.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Moment of Death in Renaissance Art./
Author:	Harris, Katerina Roberta.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	403 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-06A.
Subject:	Art history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28652277
ISBN:	9798496508490

The Moment of Death in Renaissance Art.
Harris, Katerina Roberta.

The Moment of Death in Renaissance Art. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 403 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation isolates a new development in Italian Renaissance art circa 1450-1550 where we are shown bodies at the point of death, caught on a threshold-not quite alive but yet to pass into a post-mortem peace. It takes as its starting point the work of the fifteenth-century Italian humanist Leon Battista Alberti, who writes that the depiction of dead bodies is the Renaissance painter's greatest challenge.Although Alberti identifies the challenge, he gives very little advice about how to overcome it. He describes dead bodies in negative terms: they are not moving, not feeling, not alive. This dissertation considers the challenge of representing a lack of life from the perspective of Italian Renaissance painters and sculptors. How do painters and sculptors describe the absence of life? How do they describe this absence without simply juxtaposing it against life's presence? How do they indicate that, though life has now gone, it once was? With these and other questions in mind, this dissertation suggests that the dynamic boundary between life and death is the subject of many Italian Renaissance works of art.The study includes secular images while addressing the fact that the depiction of Christ posed particular difficulties and evaluating these difficulties in the context of contemporary theological and devotional texts that deal with the Passion. It primarily examines paintings and sculptures, but also illuminations, engravings, and woodcuts. Many works of Renaissance art are compared and contrasted in order to better understand how Renaissance painters and sculptors tried to evoke the moment of death through representation.

ISBN: 9798496508490Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122701
Art history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Alberti, Leon Battista

The Moment of Death in Renaissance Art.
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