Pedagogy Jan 2013

Dante in the Italian Renaissance of Art

Lisa Bixenstine Safford

Abstract

Much of Renaissance art reflects a Dantesque worldview. Addressed here is Dante’s link to early trecento art; to burgeoning pious art patronage resulting from Purgatorio’s salvific promise; to rising individualism resulting in growing civic identity, the cult of artistic fame, the art of portraiture, and biography as an early art historical methodology; and to an enduring fascination with antiquity, all made palatable and patriotic for later generations by glosses widely known in Commedia incunabula.

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Pedagogy
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2013-01-01
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10.1215/15314200-1814215
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