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Florence as "Paradise Lost"

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Florence as "Paradise Lost"

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Roger J. Crum

Leiden

Brill

The city of Florence has been a place of artistic pilgrimage for centuries. This essay discusses late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American interest in Florence and, specifically, two of its masterpieces in Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise and Botticelli's Birth of Venus as indicative of a melancholic perspective on the Florentine Renaissance as a "Paradise Lost." The city was ambivalently idealized as an "Earthly Paradise." The city of Florence has been a place of artistic pilgrimage for centuries. This essay discusses late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American interest in Florence and, specifically, two of its masterpieces in Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise and Botticelli's Birth of Venus as indicative of a melancholic perspective on the Florentine Renaissance as a "Paradise Lost." The city was ambivalently idealized as an "Earthly Paradise."

2018

8-15

Religion and the Arts

22/1-2

1568-5292

Art History

Bernard Berenson

Chalres Eliot Norton

Comparative Religion & Religious Studies

Dante

Domenico Michelino

E.M. Forster

Florence

Grand Tour

History

Jeff Koons

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Pluto and Proserpina

Religious Studies

Renaissance

Sandro Botticelli

tourism

Venus

Walter Pater

Roger J. Crum

10.1163/15685292-02201014

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