The Renaissance in the 19th Century: Revision, Revival, and Return
The Renaissance in the 19th Century examines the Italian Renaissance revival as a Pan-European critique: a commentary on and reshaping of a nineteenth-century present that is perceived as deeply problematic. The revival, located between historical nostalgia and critique of the contemporary world, swept the humanistic disciplines—history, literature, music, art, architecture, collecting.

The Italian Renaissance revival marked the oeuvre of a group of figures as diverse as J.-D. Ingres and E. M. Forster, Heinrich Geymüller and Adolf von Hildebrand, Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt, H. H. Richardson and R. M. Rilke, Giosuè Carducci and De Sanctis. Though some perceived the Italian Renaissance as a Golden Age, a model for the present, others cast it as a negative example, contrasting the resurgence of the arts with the decadence of society and the loss of an ethical and political conscience. The triumphalist model had its detractors, and the reaction to the Renaissance was more complex than it may at first have appeared.

Through a series of essays by a group of international scholars, volume editors Lina Bolzoni and Alina Payne recover the multidimensionality of the reaction to, transformation of, and commentary on the connections between the Italian Renaissance and nineteenth-century modernity. The essays look from within (by Italians) and from without (by foreigners, expatriates, travelers, and scholars), comparing different visions and interpretations.

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The Renaissance in the 19th Century: Revision, Revival, and Return
The Renaissance in the 19th Century examines the Italian Renaissance revival as a Pan-European critique: a commentary on and reshaping of a nineteenth-century present that is perceived as deeply problematic. The revival, located between historical nostalgia and critique of the contemporary world, swept the humanistic disciplines—history, literature, music, art, architecture, collecting.

The Italian Renaissance revival marked the oeuvre of a group of figures as diverse as J.-D. Ingres and E. M. Forster, Heinrich Geymüller and Adolf von Hildebrand, Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt, H. H. Richardson and R. M. Rilke, Giosuè Carducci and De Sanctis. Though some perceived the Italian Renaissance as a Golden Age, a model for the present, others cast it as a negative example, contrasting the resurgence of the arts with the decadence of society and the loss of an ethical and political conscience. The triumphalist model had its detractors, and the reaction to the Renaissance was more complex than it may at first have appeared.

Through a series of essays by a group of international scholars, volume editors Lina Bolzoni and Alina Payne recover the multidimensionality of the reaction to, transformation of, and commentary on the connections between the Italian Renaissance and nineteenth-century modernity. The essays look from within (by Italians) and from without (by foreigners, expatriates, travelers, and scholars), comparing different visions and interpretations.

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The Renaissance in the 19th Century: Revision, Revival, and Return

The Renaissance in the 19th Century: Revision, Revival, and Return

The Renaissance in the 19th Century: Revision, Revival, and Return

The Renaissance in the 19th Century: Revision, Revival, and Return

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The Renaissance in the 19th Century examines the Italian Renaissance revival as a Pan-European critique: a commentary on and reshaping of a nineteenth-century present that is perceived as deeply problematic. The revival, located between historical nostalgia and critique of the contemporary world, swept the humanistic disciplines—history, literature, music, art, architecture, collecting.

The Italian Renaissance revival marked the oeuvre of a group of figures as diverse as J.-D. Ingres and E. M. Forster, Heinrich Geymüller and Adolf von Hildebrand, Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt, H. H. Richardson and R. M. Rilke, Giosuè Carducci and De Sanctis. Though some perceived the Italian Renaissance as a Golden Age, a model for the present, others cast it as a negative example, contrasting the resurgence of the arts with the decadence of society and the loss of an ethical and political conscience. The triumphalist model had its detractors, and the reaction to the Renaissance was more complex than it may at first have appeared.

Through a series of essays by a group of international scholars, volume editors Lina Bolzoni and Alina Payne recover the multidimensionality of the reaction to, transformation of, and commentary on the connections between the Italian Renaissance and nineteenth-century modernity. The essays look from within (by Italians) and from without (by foreigners, expatriates, travelers, and scholars), comparing different visions and interpretations.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674981027
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 12/17/2018
Series: I Tatti Research Series , #1
Pages: 552
Product dimensions: 6.75(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Lina Bolzoni is Professor Emerita of Italian Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. She is the author of The Gallery of Memory and The Web of Images, among other titles.

Alina Payne is Paul E. Geier Director of Villa I Tatti and Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction Lina Bolzoni Alina Payne 9

Introduction Lina Bolzoni e Alina Payne 18

Part I The Creation of the Myth

Inventing the Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century France Stephen Bann 31

Un lusso per il pensiero. Il Rinascimento italiano di Jacob Burckhardt Maurizio Ghelardi 49

Cinquecento and Ottocento at War: Leonardo da Vinci and the Legacy of Renaissance Battle Painting Before and After the Risorgimento Francesca Borgo 65

II Rinascimento e suo doppio. De Sanctis, Carducci e Burckhardt Emma Giammattei 89

Part II The Myth, Institutions and Patrons

The Appropriation of a Foreign Past: Oriental Carpets as Part of Wilhelm von Bode's Museum Vision of the Renaissance Eva-Maria Troelenberg 113

Architectural Drawings at the Uffizi: The Brichieri Colombi Acquisition and the Tuscan Renaissance Revivalism of Giuseppe Del Rosso Cara Rachele 137

The Renaissance Inside Out: Historical Reference and Financial Modernity in the "Rothschild Style" Interior, c. 1820-1860 David Sadighian 157

The Dueling Angels and Other Tales from the Scene of Instruction Marc Gotlieb 189

The Future Belongs to Ghosts: Renaissance Shadows in Ottocento Italy Maria Loh 213

Ironia, distanza e contrasto tra il poeta e il mondo. Ariosto e Tasso alle soglie della modernità Christian Rivoletti 245

Part III Paradigms: Donatello, Michelangelo, Ariosto, Tasso

Fiction, Memory and History in Donizetti's Torquato Tasso Giuseppe Gerbino 273

Through a Mirror, Darkly: Medardo Rosso and Donatella Daniel M. Zolli 289

La riscoperta letteraria di Michelangelo Ida Campeggiani 313

Symbols of Time: Ariosto, the Nazarenes, and the Poetics of Epic Fresco Cordula Grewe 341

Part IV Passion and Politics: Women in the Renaissance

Eroine rinascimentali tra romanzo e melodramma Lina Bolzoni 369

Images of Renaissance Heroines in Nineteenth-Century Painting: Caterina Cornaro, Bianca Capello, Lucrezia Borgia Candida Syndikus 391

Rescuing the Renaissance: Women Writers, Courtesans, and Salza's Stampa Jane Tylus 417

"Saffo italiana". La fortuna letteraria di Gaspara Stampa nell'Ottocento Veronica Andreani 435

Part V Building the Backdrop: The Nineteenth-Century City

Firenze capitale (1865-1870). Quale Rinascimento per la città di Dante? Claudia Conforti 457

Reviving the Renaissance: Alfonso Rubbiani and Quattrocento Architecture in Post-Unification Bologna Nadja Aksamija 465

The Unexpected Fate of the Italian Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century French Architecture Neil Levine 491

Part VI The Aftermath

Between Renaissance Aesthetics and Medieval Craft: The Vexed Genesis of Modernist Architecture Alina Payne 511

Contributors 537

Photo Credits 541

Index of Names 543

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