6 March 2006 | Books, Renaissance
Publishers Weekly has nominated Frank Zollner’s recent Botticelli tome for the distinction of “least-scintillating opening sentence ever (‘Art history is the scholarly discipline that addresses the ubiquitous medium of the visual image’).”
27 February 2006 | Renaissance
Johns Hopkins University may soon shutter the Villa Spelman in Florence together with its storied Italian Studies Seminar, even though “the University recently received a gift of $100 million and has raised over $2.1 billion in its ‘Knowledge for the World’ campaign.” The villa eats $500,000 a year and needs repairs. Concerned parties have started [...]
24 February 2006 | Conferences, News, Renaissance
Our Ross Finocchio writes: “Talk of Italian festivals warmed the damp chill of Boston on Thursday afternoon. The ‘Celebration in the Arts of Italy’ session took as its theme the Renaissance public processions that transformed their urban setting. The triumph of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1536, for example, was also ‘a triumph of [...]
15 February 2006 | Books, Renaissance
In the January-March 2006 Word & Image, Louisa Waldman belatedly reviews Michel Jeanneret’s “groundbreaking, learned, and eminently readable” 1997 Perpetuum mobile, published in English in 2001 as Perpetual Motion: Transforming Shapes in the Renaissance from da Vinci to Montaigne, which “sets out to revise the idea … of the sixteenth century as an age dominated [...]
