The Italian Renaissance Nude footnotes and bibliography (original) (raw)

Chi è quello che abbia per alcun secolo in tale arte veduto mai statue antiche o moderne così fatte? Conoscendosi non solo la quiete di chi dorme, ma il dolore e la malinconia di chi perde cosa onorata e grande." 20 For the poems about Night, see Land, The Viewer as Poet, 76-9; Jacobs, The Living Image, 43-6. 21 Condivi, Vita di Michelangelo, 35: "che' è fatta in forma di donna di maravigliosa bellezza"; "tale an[i]maluccio di continuo rode et consuma, non altrimenti chel tempo, ogni cosa divora." 22 Hirst, Michelangelo, 199. 23 Stark and Nelson, "The Breasts of 'Night.'" I have benefited from Jonathan Nelson's more recent thoughts on this matter at a symposium in December 2016. 24 Discussed in Campbell, "Beyond the Ideal Nude." 25 See also for the fissile nature of artistic discourse at this time, Nagel, The Controversy of Renaissance Art. 26 Perhaps it is a sign of the times that there have been several publications very recently on this subject: Kren, Campbell, and Burke, The Renaissance Nude, and Burke, "The European Nude" both look at the development of the nude across Europe; Lazzarini, "The Nude in Central Italian Painting" partially notes A Note on Notes The references in this book are given as the author's surname, a shortened title, and a page reference. The relevant information for texts in full can be found in the bibliography. 3 Berchorius, Dictionarii, 588-9. For other discussions of "virtuous nakedness," Snow-Smith, "Michelangelo's Christian Neoplatonic Aesthetic"; Nagel, "Experiments in Art and Reform in Italy in the Early Sixteenth Century." 4 Berchorius, Dictionarii, 588: "Arbores nascitur cum cortice, animalia nascuntur cum vellere, pisces cum squamis, volucres cum plumis, homo autem nudus et debilis nascitur, ut ad deum recurrere copellatur." 5 Ibid. "Et istud proculdubio est causa magnae humilitatis, quia in hoc est homo vilior et inferior exteris rebus." 6 Innocent III, De miseria condicionis humane, 104-05. 7 Trinkaus, In Our Image and Likeness and "Themes for a Renaissance Anthropology." More recently, Stark, "Renaissance Anthropologies," 175-82. 8 Amended translation from Murchland, ed., Two Views of Man, 92. Original in Manetti, De dignitate, 130-31: "Ad quod nos decoris et pulchritudinis causa homines ita nasci oportuisse respondemus. .. profecto natura humanum corpus, ceterorum omnium operum suorum pulcherrimum ac nimirum formossisumum opificium ab ea mirabiliter fabrefactum, nunquam alieno ondumento abscondisset, ne forte pulchritudines suas incongruis et abiectis velaminibus cooperirit." Discussed in Trinkaus, In Our Image and Likeness, 256-7. See also for Manetti, Trinkaus, "Themes for a Renaissance Anthropology"; Garin, "La 'dignitas hominis'".