Kurzbeschreibung
Twelve essays examine the art history and culture of Rome and Italy from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Ancient: “Notes on the Coordination of Wall, Floor, and Ceiling Decoration in the Houses of Roman Italy 100 BCE-235 CE” by John R. Clarke, “Pegasos and the Seasons in a Pavement from Caesarea Maritima” by Marie Spiro; Medieval and Renaissance: “The Madonna del Coazzone and the Cult of the Virgin Immaculate in Milan and Pavia” by Edith W. Kirsch, “Donatello and the High Altar in the Santo, Padua” by Sarah Blake McHam; Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century: “Medici Patronage and the Festival of 1589” by Arthur R. Blumenthal, “The Vatican Tower of the Winds and the Architectural Legacy of the Counter Reformation” by Nicola Courtright, _“Drawing and Collaboration in the Carracci Academy” by Gail Feigenbaum, “Clement VIII, the Lateran and Christian Concord” by Jack Freiberg, “Lelio Pasqualini: A Late Sixteenth-Century Antiquarian” by Alexandra Herz , “The Bentvueghels: ‘Bande Académique’” by David A. Levine, “The King, the Poet, and the Nation: A French Sixteenth-Century Relief and the Pléiade” by Michael P. Mezzatesta, “Marble Revetment in Late Sixteenth-Century Roman Chapels” by Steven F. Ostrow. Preface, bibliography, index, 114 illustrations.