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Flavia De Nicola deposited Nuove acquisizioni sulla prima attività romana di Michelangelo Buonarroti connessa con l’Umanesimo dei Pomponiani in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoYoung Michelangelo Buonarroti’s experience was deeply marked by his cult of Antiquity, reverberated in the creation of artworks such as the Sleeping Cupid and the Bacchus and shared with Raffaele Riario and Jacopo Galli, his patrons during his first stay in Rome (1496-1501).
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Flavia De Nicola deposited Nuove acquisizioni sulla prima attività romana di Michelangelo Buonarroti connessa con l’Umanesimo dei Pomponiani in the group
Italian Art Society on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoYoung Michelangelo Buonarroti’s experience was deeply marked by his cult of Antiquity, reverberated in the creation of artworks such as the Sleeping Cupid and the Bacchus and shared with Raffaele Riario and Jacopo Galli, his patrons during his first stay in Rome (1496-1501).
The cardinal-camerlengo Raffaele Riario was an important promoter of t…[Read more] -
Flavia De Nicola deposited Equus infoelicitatis: analisi iconografica di una xilografia dell’ Hypnerotomachia Poliphili fra testo e immagine, xilografia n. 6 in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThe peculiar iconography of the winged horse surmounted by several puttos, as appears in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili sixth woodcut, turns out to be unprecedented and enigmatic at a glance and it’s the result of the depth and complexity of the author’s concepts.
Considering the iconographic details of the sculptural group as well as the text sca…[Read more] -
Flavia De Nicola deposited Equus infoelicitatis: analisi iconografica di una xilografia dell’ Hypnerotomachia Poliphili fra testo e immagine, xilografia n. 6 in the group
Italian Art Society on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThe peculiar iconography of the winged horse surmounted by several puttos, as appears in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili sixth woodcut, turns out to be unprecedented and enigmatic at a glance and it’s the result of the depth and complexity of the author’s concepts.
Considering the iconographic details of the sculptural group as well as the text sca…[Read more] -
David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “’A Broken Voice’: Iconic Distress in Shakespeare’s Tragedies” (Anglia 137.1, 2019), pp. 33-52 in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article explores the change in dynamics between matter and style in Shakespeare’s way of depicting distress on the early modern stage. During his early years as a dramatist, Shakespeare wrote plays filled with violence and death, but language did not lose its composure at the sight of blood and destruction; it kept on marching to the beat o…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Studies.” The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Evelyn Gajowski (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 247-261 in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoGlobal studies enable us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare. This chapter focuses on the modern period and introduces readers to a number of key concepts in Shakespeare and global studies, namely censorship and redaction, genre, gender, race, and politics of reception. Performing Shakespeare not only creates channels between…[Read more]
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Cesare Pastorino deposited Coignet’s “reigle platte” (preliminary measures and data for weights) – Early Science and Medicine (forthcoming) in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoPreliminary data set of measures from Michiel Coignet’s “reigle platte” and comparison of the weights of substances with data in Kepler’s table of specific gravities in MesseKunst Archimedis. Michiel Coignet, Usus duodecim diuisionum geometricarum, Brussels, KBR, II 769, folio 40r. Data associated with a forthcoming article in Early Science and…[Read more]
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Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik replied to the topic Welcome to the RSA Humanities Commons Group! in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoDear Richard,
thank you for the materials, very handy.
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Evan Carmouche replied to the topic Doing Research in Renaissance Studies in the Age of COVID-19 in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe RSA’s Digital Resources page has been expanded to a full website hosted on Humanities Commons: https://rsadigitalresources.hcommons-staging.org/
This blog contains links to online resources for research in Renaissance studies, contributed by RSA members and edited by the RSA’s Digital and Multimedia Committee. Please submit any additional…[Read more]
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Owen Williams posted an update in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThose interested in Critical Race Theory, Shakespeare, and Teaching will want to investigate two videos in the Folger Institute’s Critical Race Conversations series: https://www.youtube.com/user/FolgerLibrary/featured.
In July, these two free events addressed how college faculty can and should integrate critical race studies into their…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Chapter 1, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter, “Owning Chinese Shakespeares,” pursues the critical concept of localization and critiques the fidelity-derived discourse about cultural ownership. How were Chinese Shakespeares used as a kind of staged utopia of modernity?
Underlying this study are three related lines of inquiry united by what might be called locality criticism, t…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook Volume 18 in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThanks to Karl Marx’s references in his political treatises, Shakespeare held a significant place in a number of communist and other left-authoritarian countries, including China and the USSR. And although there were themes in Shakespeare that turned out to be inconvenient for communist ideology, other Shakespearean plays were put into service. I…[Read more]
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Anne Leader deposited Architectural Collaboration in the Early Renaissance: Reforming the Florentine Badia in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn the late 1420s, Abbot Gomezio di Giovanni initiated a major building campaign to reform the Benedictine monastery of the Florentine Badia. Designed to provide its community with an orderly space in which to pursue the Benedictine Observance, the compound rises around the so-called Orange Cloister, long considered to be an early work of Bernardo…[Read more]
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Anne Leader deposited Architectural Collaboration in the Early Renaissance: Reforming the Florentine Badia in the group
Italian Art Society on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn the late 1420s, Abbot Gomezio di Giovanni initiated a major building campaign to reform the Benedictine monastery of the Florentine Badia. Designed to provide its community with an orderly space in which to pursue the Benedictine Observance, the compound rises around the so-called Orange Cloister, long considered to be an early work of Bernardo…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoInformed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute…[Read more]
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Alexander J McNair deposited Pasillo del Cid Campeador: un curioso pliego suelto del siglo XIX in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoEn su edición del Romancero del Cid de 1871, un compendio de todos los romances del Cid disponibles en versiones impresas de los siglos XVI y XVII, Carolina Michaëlis incluyó un apéndice para demostrar la vitalidad de la tradición cidiana en pleno siglo XIX. Michaëlis escribe: “Para muestra del género de romances populares que aun hoy dia en A…[Read more]
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Cristelle Baskins started the topic CFP — IAS sponsored session at RSA Dublin 2021 in the discussion
Italian Art Society on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoPainted Faces: Documenting the Tradition and Reach of the Renaissance Frescoed Façade in Rome and Beyond In early sixteenth-century Rome, as the architectural language of grand domestic spaces was being further refined, elaborate façade fresco decorations came into incredible popularity. These cycles, some of which were designed to root the st…[Read more]
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Cesare Pastorino deposited Compasso Geometrico e Militare (measures and data for weights) – Early Science and Medicine (forthcoming) in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoData set of measures from Galileo Galilei’s Compasso Geometrico e Militare and comparison of the weights of substances with data in Kepler’s table of specific gravities in MesseKunst Archimedis. Data associated with a forthcoming article in Early Science and Medicine, titled “Johannes Kepler and the Exploration of the Weight of Substances in the…[Read more]
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Carla Zecher replied to the topic Thinking about Careers for Scholars of Renaissance Studies in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoI was thinking about this again yesterday. I’m going to take a guess that the educational divisions of arts organizations are going to be the most stable units with respect to employment, because those efforts can continue even when the venue itself is closed.
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