'Anachronic Renaissance reveals a web of paths traveled by works and artists, a landscape obscured by art history’s disciplinary compulsion to anchor its data securely in time. The buildings, paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and medals addressed in this book were shaped by concerns about authenticity, about reference to prestigious origins and precedents, and about the implications of transposition from one medium to another. Byzantine icons taken to be early Christian antiquities, the "acheiropoeton" or image made without hands, the activities of spoliation and citation, differing approaches to art restoration, legends about movable buildings, and forgeries and pastiches: all of these emerge as basic conceptual structures of Renaissance art. The authors show how the complex and layered temporalities of images offered a counterpoint to the linear chronologies that increasingly structured commerce, politics, travel, and everyday life in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. While a work of art does bear witness to the moment of its fabrication, Nagel and Wood argue that it is equally important to understand its temporal instability: how it points away from that moment, backward to a remote ancestral origin, to a prior artifact or image, even to an origin outside of time, in divinity. The authors conclude with an analysis of Roman episodes and projects of the decades around 1500, culminating in Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura. This book is not the story about the Renaissance, nor is it just a story. It imagines the infrastructure of many possible stories. Clearly, Anachronic Renaissance will be essential reading for historians of Western art and all those concerned with the historiography of material culture.' -from book flap.

Includes an index.
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Onsite

Location code
REF.NAA4
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2010

No of pages

456

ISBN / ISSN

9781935408024

No of copies

1

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Plural Temporality of the Work of Art

'The Image of the Image of Our Lady'

What is Substitution?

An Antique Statue of Christ

The Plebeian Pleasure of Anachronism

Architectural Models

Double Origins of the Christian Temple

Icon Maintenance

Fashion in Painting

Ancient Painting

Substitution Symbolized

Author and Acheiropoieton

Antiquity of Buildings Overrated

Non-Actual Histories of Architecture

Temples Painted, Printed, and Real

Citation and Spoliation

Neo-Cosmatesque

Movable Buildings

The Titulus Crucis

The Fabrication of Visual Evidence

Anachronic Renaissance
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Anachronic Renaissance