Quixotic Frescoes : : Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art / / Frederick A. de Armas.

As a young man, Miguel de Cervantes left his home in Spain and travelled extensively through Italy, experiencing all that the Italian Renaissance had to offer. In his later writings, Cervantes sought to recapture his experience through literature, and literary critics have often pointed to Italian t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2006
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1. The Exhilaration of Italy
  • 2. A Museum of Memories: From Numancia to La Galatea
  • 3. At School with the Ancients: Raphael
  • 4. The Fourfold Way: Raphael
  • 5. Textual Terribilitá: Michelangelo
  • 6. The Merchants of Trebizond: Luca Cambiaso
  • 7. Drawing Decorum: Titian
  • 8. Dancing with Giants: Philostratus
  • 9. A Mannerist Theophany / A Cruel Teichoskopia: Pontormo and Parmigianino
  • 10. Dulcinea and the Five Maidens: Zeuxis
  • 11. Love's Architecture: Giulio Romano
  • 12. The Last Enchantment: Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index