Andrea Mantegna: Humanist Aesthetics, Faith, and the Force of Images

by Stephen J. Campbell

If the fifteenth century in Italy has been seen as the moment when the constellation of disciplines known as "the humanities" begins to take shape, it was also a time when a "crisis in the humanities" - their value, their limits, who and what they included or excluded - was also manifest. A largely nineteenth century construction of "Renaissance humanism" has indelibly cast humanist pursuits in terms of writing, with arts of making or techne sometimes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912554348
• ISBN13: 9781912554348
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Harvey Miller
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.9" x 11.3"