Angels and the Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

This book examines the role of angels in medieval and Renaissance art and religion from Dante to the Counter-Reformation.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Pure act: medieval angelology and Dante's angels; 2. Wings: celestial visions in the later middle ages and Renaissance; 3. Bodies and voices: annunciation and heavenly harmonies; 4. Contemplation: angelic witness and empathy; 5. Clouds and the fall: rebellion, salvation, and reform.

About the author

Meredith J. Gill is Professor of Italian Renaissance Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Augustine in the Italian Renaissance: Art and Philosophy from Petrarch to Michelangelo (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and co-editor, with Karla Pollmann, of Augustine Beyond the Book: Intermediality, Transmediality and Reception. Among her other publications are articles in Renaissance Quarterly, Storia dell'Arte, and Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, and essays in Rethinking the High Renaissance: The Culture of the Visual Arts in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome; The Possessions of a Cardinal: Politics, Piety, and Art, 1450–1700; The Renaissance World; and Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She has been a fellow at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and the National Humanities Center, and the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Summary

This book traces the portrayal of angels across time, identifying their distinctive habitats and attributes, considering new perspectives on heaven and the afterlife, theories about visible and invisible worlds, and the differences between human and divine beings. It focuses on Italy and painting, including well- and lesser-known single works and fresco cycles.

Product details

• Authors: Meredith Gill, Meredith J Gill, Meredith J. Gill, Meredith J. (University of Maryland Gill, Gill Meredith J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2014
• EAN: 9781107027954
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02795-4
• No. of pages: 463
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Europe, European History, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, The Early Church