Andrea del Sarto : : splendor and renewal in the Renaissance altarpiece / / Steven J. Cody.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 314/47
• VerfasserIn: Cody, Steven J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 314/47.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Over the course of his career, Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) created altarpieces rich in theological complexity, elegant in formal execution, and dazzlingly brilliant in chromatic impact. This book investigates the spiritual dimensions of those works, focusing on six highly-significant panels. Accord...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• 1 Painted Mysteries
• 2 The Painter without Errors
• 3 Andrea and the Monographic Tradition
• 4 Art, Renewal, and Reform
• 1 Sight and Touch in the Noli me tangere
• 1 Touching Christ
• 2 Flesh and Facture
• 3 Figures and Figurae
• 2 The Sweetness of the San Gallo Annunciation
• 1 Conceiving Christ
• 2 “A Sweet Word, but a Sweeter Act”
• 3 Gloria
• 3 Light from the Light of the Madonna of the Harpies
• 1 The Pursuit of Brilliance
• 2 “Like a Divine Fire”
• 3 “The Supreme Illumination of our Mind”
• 4 Among the Visionaries
• 4 Sight and Sighs in the Disputation on the Trinity
• 1 Paradigms of Renewal
• 2 Among the Visionaries, Again
• 3 Attending to Color
• 5 The Splendor of the Luco Pietà
• 1 Christ’s Death in Living Memory
• 2 The Bread of Life in Living Color
• 3 The Manner of Christ’s Death
• 6 Light from the Shadows in the Gambassi Altarpiece
• 1 Spiritual Transactions
• 2 Embodied Prayer
• 3 To “Rest in the Shadow of the Almighty”
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index.