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Ferrarese Masses of the Late Renaissance
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THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE LATE-RENAISSANCE INDIVIDUAL
This thesis focuses on the ways in which late-Renaissance identities are constructed through Italian self-portraits and portraits, by considering the importance of the use of space, the placement of the body, clothing, and other items within a painting. I consider portraits or self-portraits as …
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Natural theology and natural philosophy in the late Renaissance
… are shown to be uncharacteristic of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century. The study of natural theology needs to be better integrated into three contexts – the doctrinal, confessional, and chronological. Doctrinally, natural theology does not stand alone but needs to be …
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Vincenzo Danti and the Medici court : constructing professional identity in late Renaissance Florence
Vincenzo Danti (1530-1576), Perugian by birth and training, relocated to Florence in 1557 to work for the Medici court. While there, Danti completed visual and textual works oriented to the interests of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574) and his son, Prince Francesco (1541-1587). Danti also …
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Distant cathedrals
… Palestrina’s panconsonant music is emblematic of late Renaissance polyphony. Given Palestrina’s position as one of Europe’s leading composers, late Renaissance counterpoint is often labeled Palestrina-style polyphony. This piece infuses the pureness of Palestrina with extended tertian and …
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Desire and Agency in the Modern Women's Sonnet
… investigates the ways that women poets, from the late Renaissance to the postmodern age, have used the sonnet form both to critique and to re-envision the female experience, particularly in regard to the cultural value of love. In addition to its analysis of poetic form, this dissertation also …
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The Encyclopedic Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rudolfine Kunstkammer as Expressions of Power
… practice among Italian humanists of the late Renaissance who, influenced by the work of Pliny, were driven by the desire to understand the world through the acquisition of universal knowledge. The physical configuration of such encyclopedic projects could be found in the museums created …
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An Analysis of Wars of the Romani, a Flemish Tapestry From the Late Sixteenth Century
… offers a view into the pictorial trends of the late Renaissance and displays the energy of the tumultuous era in which it was woven.</p>
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An Analysis of Wars of the Romani, a Flemish Tapestry From the Late Sixteenth Century
… offers a view into the pictorial trends of the late Renaissance and displays the energy of the tumultuous era in which it was woven.</p>
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"Manuel Rodrigues Coelho's ""Flores De Musica"": Style and Performance Practice"
… marks a turning point in musical style between late Renaissance and early Baroque practices, especially in the tentos, which form a link in the evolution of the Spanish tiento, beginning with those of Mudarra and Cabezon and culminating in the works of Correa and Cabanilles. This study of Flores …
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Aspects of style, form and harmony in the sacred music of Heinrich Schutz, with specific reference to his Psalms of David and Geistliche Chormusik
… was experiencing the gradual transition from the renaissance to the baroque. Schutz assimilated the principles of composition which characterised the late renaissance and applied them in a manner which at the same time reflected his own progressive approach to these established principles. This …
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Reconsidering the Lament: Form, Content, and Genre in Italian Chamber Recitative Laments: 1600-1640
… phenomena since text cannot be completely translated or transformed to music and vice versa. The composers of Italian chamber recitative laments utilized their innate heterogeneity between two materials (music and text) as a metaphor that represents the semantic essence of the genre, the …
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Heinrich Schutz and Rembrandt van Rijn: biblical illustrators
… include: the stylistic transition from the late Renaissance to the early Baroque, the continuing religious conflict of the Protestant Reformation, the rising influence of French classicism, and finally, the tragic events in each master's personal life. Stylistically, the music and painting …
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Venetian Sunk-panel Bindings: A Sixteenth century Structure and Production
… This manufacture was developed during the late Renaissance, a period when Venetian craftsmanship reached the highest quality in the imitation of Islamic designs and crafts. Within the context of 16th-century bookbinding, this phenomenon produced sumptuous bindings that combined Western book …
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Thomas Hobbes and the reception of early-modern Epicureanism
… the background of Hobbes' s encounter with the late Renaissance and humanist Epicurean tradition as well as suggesting that Hobbes' s ideas in anthropology and ethics, but consequently also in his politics, reflect Epicurean motifs to a greater degree as has yet been acknowledged. Chapter One is …
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The (un)Natural Baroque: Giambattista Marino and Monteverdi's Late Madrigals
… often been seen to bridge the gap between the Renaissance and the Baroque since they introduced instrumental writing and operatic elements into a traditionally vocal genre. There is an unmistakable change in Monteverdi’s approach to madrigal composition at the beginning of his Venetian period …