Medieval and Renaissance Venice

Medieval aspects of Renaissance learning

Dazzling brilliance: Veronese: magnificence in renaissance venice.

Veronese (1528–1588) came to maturity as Elizabeth I ascended the English throne, and yet the contrast between his accomplishments and the antiquated stateapproved images of that marvellous woman could hardly be greater. The central thesis of the recent series of TV programmes about the English Renaissance is, I regret to say because I admire James Fox, blown out of the water by this show. For ...

Do Medieval and Renaissance Androids Presage the Posthuman?

In his article "Do Medieval and Renaissance Androids Presage the Posthuman?" Kevin LaGrandeur analyzes the relationships between literary images of artificial humans associated with medieval alchemists and alchemy, their modified reemergence in the Renaissance, and how such androids may forecast the idea of a posthuman subjectivity that is connected with their present-day descendents. For examp...

The boundaries of Eros: sex crime and sexuality in Renaissance Venice

GUIDO RUGGIERO, The boundaries ofEros: sex crime and sexuality in Renaissance Venice, Oxford University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. vii, 223, £25-00. The sexual mores ofVenice have fascinated the English-speaking world since at least the early seventeenth century, when Thomas Coryat discovered the city's courtesans to be "so loose that they are said to open their quivers to every arrow". A high point...

Tracing Medieval and Renaissance alabaster artwork back to quarries: A multi-isotope (Sr, S, O) approach

Multi-isotope fingerprinting (sulphur, oxygen and strontium isotopes) has been tested to study the provenances of medieval and Renaissance French and Swedish alabaster artwork. Isotope signatures of historical English, French and Spanish alabaster source quarries or areas reveal highly specific, with a strong intra-group homogeneity and strong inter-group contrasts, especially for Sr and S isot...