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Author:

Buccheri, Alessandra, 1972-

Title:

The spectacle of clouds, 1439-1650 : Italian art and theatre / Alessandra Buccheri.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 203 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Clouds in art.
Theaters--History--Italy--History--To 1600.
Theaters--History--Italy--History--16th century.
Theaters--History--Italy--History--17th century.
Art, Italian--15th century.
Art, Italian--16th century.
Art, Italian--17th century.
Theater--Italy--History--Medieval, 500-1500.
Theater--Italy--History--16th century.
Theater--Italy--History--17th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.

Contents:

Cloud machinery : a heritage from the middle ages -- Designing paradise : Brunelleschi, Leonardo, and Vasari -- Platform clouds vs bubble clouds : Raphael vs Correggio -- Court theatre in the 16th century : only the Medici go to heaven -- Why clouds can be trouble : the challenge of foreshortening -- From volume to structure : towards a new heaven -- The Tuscan school in Rome in the 17th century : a struggle for identity -- A burst of heaven on earth : the glory of saint at Santi Quattro Coronati -- The triumph of baroque clouds in art and theatre.

Series:

Visual culture in early modernity

ISBN:

1472418832 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781472418838 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)881848545

LCCN:

2014023550

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)