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The Art of Commemoration in the Renaissance: The Slade Lectures

The Art of Commemoration in the Renaissance: The Slade Lectures

Lavin, Irving
Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg

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Series: Studies in Art and History

Art HistoryMedieval & Renaissance HistoryItalian History

ISBN10: 1599103915
ISBN13: 9781599103914
Publisher: Italica Press
Published: Sep 9 2020
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In the early 1980s, Irving Lavin was invited to deliver The Slade Lectures at Oxford University, and he took it as an opportunity to develop an idea he had long considered but never articulated: that the Italian fifteenth-century revival of ancient art was an outward sign of fundamental changes in humanity's perception of the inner self. The change started when the individual emerged from the Middle Ages and began to exhibit a previously unknown awareness of the past as opposed to the present. The individual became a person who could make choices about existence on the basis of a new internal consciousness. What the Renaissance called the new man chose what emerged from the classical world as a higher culture and, having absorbed and transformed it, adopted it. The new mode of being not only transformed human actions, it also became the basis for a new manifestation in the arts in a style we term Renaissance.

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