‘The Italian Renaissance in the nineteenth century: revision, revival and return’. Review of: The Italian Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century. Revision, Revival and Return, edited by Lina Bolzoni and Alina Payne, I Tatti Research Series, 1, Harvard University Press-Officina Libraria, Milan 2018

The book examines the Italian Renaissance revival as a Pan-European event: a commentary on reshaping of the Renaissance in the nineteenth-century perceived as deeply problematic. On the field of an ample range of disciplines—history, literature, music, art, architecture, urban planning-, the Italian...

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Main Author:	Daniela del Pesco
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2019-12-01
Series:	Journal of Art Historiography
Subjects:	european art romanticism italian literary criticism opera melodrama history of women
Online Access:	https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/del-pesco-rev.pdf

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spelling	doaj-b0b11a66976142c38dacb4b67fef00842020-11-25T00:55:56ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522019-12-012121DdP1 ‘The Italian Renaissance in the nineteenth century: revision, revival and return’. Review of: The Italian Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century. Revision, Revival and Return, edited by Lina Bolzoni and Alina Payne, I Tatti Research Series, 1, Harvard University Press-Officina Libraria, Milan 2018Daniela del Pesco0Università Roma TreThe book examines the Italian Renaissance revival as a Pan-European event: a commentary on reshaping of the Renaissance in the nineteenth-century perceived as deeply problematic. On the field of an ample range of disciplines—history, literature, music, art, architecture, urban planning-, the Italian Renaissance revival marked the work of a group of figures as diverse as E. M. Forster, Heinrich Geymüller and Adolf von Hildebrand, Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt, H. H. Richardson and R. M. Rilke, Giosuè Carducci and Francesco De Sanctis. An important theme addressed in the book is that of post-unification Italy’s architecture and attitudes towards the need to materialize in urban spaces the new reality of a united country and culture. The contradiction in attitudes towards the Italian Renaissance emerges also from the studies presented in the volume’s Part IV, ‘Building the Backdrop: The Nineteenth Century City’. Though some perceived the Italian Renaissance as a Golden Age, a model for the present, others consider it as a negative example, comparing the resurgence of the arts with the decadence of society and the loss of a political conscience. The positive model had its detractors, and the reaction to the Renaissance was more complex than it may at first have appeared. Through a series of essays by international scholars, volume editors Lina Bolzoni and Alina Payne ‘recover the multidimensionality of the reaction to, transformation of, and commentary on the connections between the Italian Renaissance and nineteenth-century modernity’.https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/del-pesco-rev.pdfeuropean artromanticismitalian literary criticismoperamelodramahistory of women
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title	‘The Italian Renaissance in the nineteenth century: revision, revival and return’. Review of: The Italian Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century. Revision, Revival and Return, edited by Lina Bolzoni and Alina Payne, I Tatti Research Series, 1, Harvard University Press-Officina Libraria, Milan 2018
title_short	‘The Italian Renaissance in the nineteenth century: revision, revival and return’. Review of: The Italian Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century. Revision, Revival and Return, edited by Lina Bolzoni and Alina Payne, I Tatti Research Series, 1, Harvard University Press-Officina Libraria, Milan 2018
title_full	‘The Italian Renaissance in the nineteenth century: revision, revival and return’. Review of: The Italian Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century. Revision, Revival and Return, edited by Lina Bolzoni and Alina Payne, I Tatti Research Series, 1, Harvard University Press-Officina Libraria, Milan 2018
title_fullStr	‘The Italian Renaissance in the nineteenth century: revision, revival and return’. Review of: The Italian Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century. Revision, Revival and Return, edited by Lina Bolzoni and Alina Payne, I Tatti Research Series, 1, Harvard University Press-Officina Libraria, Milan 2018
title_full_unstemmed	‘The Italian Renaissance in the nineteenth century: revision, revival and return’. Review of: The Italian Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century. Revision, Revival and Return, edited by Lina Bolzoni and Alina Payne, I Tatti Research Series, 1, Harvard University Press-Officina Libraria, Milan 2018
title_sort	‘the italian renaissance in the nineteenth century: revision, revival and return’. review of: the italian renaissance in the nineteenth century. revision, revival and return, edited by lina bolzoni and alina payne, i tatti research series, 1, harvard university press-officina libraria, milan 2018
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description	The book examines the Italian Renaissance revival as a Pan-European event: a commentary on reshaping of the Renaissance in the nineteenth-century perceived as deeply problematic. On the field of an ample range of disciplines—history, literature, music, art, architecture, urban planning-, the Italian Renaissance revival marked the work of a group of figures as diverse as E. M. Forster, Heinrich Geymüller and Adolf von Hildebrand, Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt, H. H. Richardson and R. M. Rilke, Giosuè Carducci and Francesco De Sanctis. An important theme addressed in the book is that of post-unification Italy’s architecture and attitudes towards the need to materialize in urban spaces the new reality of a united country and culture. The contradiction in attitudes towards the Italian Renaissance emerges also from the studies presented in the volume’s Part IV, ‘Building the Backdrop: The Nineteenth Century City’. Though some perceived the Italian Renaissance as a Golden Age, a model for the present, others consider it as a negative example, comparing the resurgence of the arts with the decadence of society and the loss of a political conscience. The positive model had its detractors, and the reaction to the Renaissance was more complex than it may at first have appeared. Through a series of essays by international scholars, volume editors Lina Bolzoni and Alina Payne ‘recover the multidimensionality of the reaction to, transformation of, and commentary on the connections between the Italian Renaissance and nineteenth-century modernity’.
topic	european art romanticism italian literary criticism opera melodrama history of women
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