Creating the "divine" artist : : from Dante to Michelangelo / / by Patricia A. Emison.

Turning a skeptical eye on the idea that Renaissance artists were widely believed to be as utterly admirable as Vasari claimed, this book re-opens the question of why artists were praised and by whom, and specifically why the language of divinity was invoked, a practice the ancients did not license...

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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Cultures, beliefs, and traditions, v. 19
Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 388 p. ); ill. ;
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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