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Informationen zum Autor Luba Freedman is a scholar of Italian Renaissance art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has also been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome and at the Center of Renaissance and Reformation Studies at Victoria College, University of Toronto. She is the author of The Classical Pastoral in the Visual Arts, Titian's Independent Self-Portraits and Titian's Portraits through Arentino's Lens. Freeman co-edited with Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich a book of essays, Wege zum Mythos. She is also on the advisory board of Renaissance Studies and The Sixteenth-Century Journal. Klappentext In this study, Luba Freedman examines the revival of the twelve Olympian deities in the visual arts of sixteenth-century Italy. Zusammenfassung In this book! Luba Freedman examines the revival of the twelve Olympian deities in the visual arts of sixteenth-century Italy. This study highlights how problematic it was during the Cinquecento to display and receive images of pagan gods! whether shaped by ancient or contemporary artists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Outlining a Cinquecento Phenomenon: 1. Terms and concepts; 2. Components of the phenomenon; Part II. Discoveries and Their Impact: 3. Olympian deities in ancient sculpture; 4. Ancient testimonies; 5. Literary descriptions; 6. The question of revival; Part III. Cinquecento Works of Art: 7. 'Classical' elements; 8. Non-classical elements; 9. The conflict in Cinquecento schools of thought.
