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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Renaissance Italy"”.
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Blurring the Lines: Private and Public Dissection in Renaissance Italy
From the fourteenth through the eighteenth century in Europe human dissection came to be practiced for a variety of purposes. Private dissections, in the forms of judicial, holy, and maternal anatomies, were performed, respectively, for the purposes of generating medical evidence that could be used …
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Women Writers of In Morte Poetry: Negotiating Grief in Renaissance Italy
This thesis focuses on in morte poetry by Renaissance women writers, examining the cases of Vittoria Colonna, Veronica Gambara, Laura Battiferri, Chiara Matraini, and Francesca Turina. It explores how these women negotiated space and legitimacy for their poetic voices in relation to the previous …
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Architectural practice and the planning of minor palaces in Renaissance Italy, 1510-1570
… of architectural practice in early 16th century Italy. The particular nature of the small urban palace as a reduced and less expensive version of larger palaces and its recurrent nature in the practice of architects malke this type of building very important in illustrating the changes in the …
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Artistic Achievements of Convent Women in Renaissance Italy: with case studies in Venice and Prato
… the artistic contributions of convent women in Renaissance Italy during the period c. 1450-1550 with individual case studies in Venice and Prato. As the cost of the traditional marriage dowry inflated markedly over the course of the fifteenth century, an increasing number of girls from affluent …
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Utopian Times: The Quest for the Perfect Society in Renaissance Italy and in the New World
Chapter 1 presents information about the historical context of the Italian utopias. Philosophical issues related to the conceptualization of utopia are discussed in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 addresses historical issues concerning the application of utopias in the New World, where More's and Campanella's …
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TIES OF POWER: A NETWORK ANALYSIS OF CONTRACTUAL AND KINSHIP RELATIONS BETWEEN MERCENARIES AND REGIONAL STATES IN THE WARFARE MARKET OF RENAISSANCE ITALY.
… research emphasises that mercenary contracts in Renaissance Italy were not simply market-driven transactions, but were deeply embedded in kinship networks and wider social structures that significantly influenced their nego tiation, implementation and evolution. Indeed, these enduring social ties …
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From Piazza to place royale: The evolution of an absolutist type (Italy, France)
In Renaissance Italy and France, newly built urban plazas were conceived of as outdoor rooms with uniform elevations and a focused monument. The coordination of planning circumstances was usually the endeavor of an aristocratic or a monarchial patron. The coherency of a plaza became a direct …
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Italians and the New Byzantium: Lombard and Venetian Architects in Muscovy, 1472-1539
… and an unknown number of masons, from Italy worked in Muscovy during these years, and their presence indelibly changed the face of Russian architecture and culture. The Muscovite princes sought to recreate the cityscape of Moscow as a symbol of the power gained when Ivan III freed his …
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Waters and Welfare: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, 1549–1609
… that early political economy, as it developed in Renaissance Italy, was conceived as a fundamentally architectural enterprise. Challenging a prevailing tendency to view early modern territorial states as abstract or conceptual entities—relations of sovereignty, bundles of laws and rights …
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Reading and meaning : the reception of Boccaccio's Teseida, Decameron and De mulieribus claris to 1520
… on the reception of Boccaccio in medieval and Renaissance Italy has focused on the Decameron to the exclusion of all other works. This thesis puts existing research into context by considering two additional works by Boccaccio alongside the Decameron, and by using an innovative methodology to …
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Masculinity, Arms and Armour, and the Culture of Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Florence
… I then review the literature that discusses Renaissance masculinity, violence, dress, and arms and armour, before introducing the four principle research areas discussed in my thesis. The first chapter “Everyday Armour: Civilians and Arms in Sixteenth-Century Florence” investigates the …
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‘See and Understand’: Funerary Monuments, Vision, and Memory in Italy, ca.1300-1530
… of theory and practice for funerary monuments in Italy between ca. 1300 and 1530. The principal focus will be on the juxtaposition of written thought on the agency of tombs with the in-depth analysis of archive-based case studies. As such, this dissertation aims to highlight the complexity of the …
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The Business of Sculpture in Venice, 1525-1625
… such as: how was sculpture commissioned in Renaissance and Early Modern Venice? Why were some contracts verbal, yet others written? How was quality assured? What meanings did materials have? How did sculptors’ workshops operate? The first two chapters examine the various stages of the …
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Material Prayers: The Use of Text in Early Modern Italian Domestic Devotions
… Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, 1400-1600, it focuses primarily on engagement with these material prayers in domestic spaces. Using an interdisciplinary approach drawing from material culture studies, literary history, social and cultural history, and art …