RT Article
T1 Florence as “Paradise Lost”
JF Religion and the arts
VO 22
IS 1/2
SP 8
OP 15
A1 Crum, Roger J. 1962-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1570204454
AB 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.”
K1 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
DO 10.1163/15685292-02201014