This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the story of how an element of the garden—the pergola—became a pictorial topos in portico decoration, and evolved, hand in hand with its real cousin in the garden, into an object for cultural emulation among the educated patrons of early modern Rome. The liminality of both the portico and the pergola at the interface of architecture and garden is key to the interpretation of these architectural and painted forms, which rests on the intersecting frameworks of the classical tradition, natural history, and the cultural identity of the aristocracy. In the mediating space of the Renaissance portico, the illusionism pergola created an art gallery, a natural history museum, and a virtual garden where one could engage in leisurely strolls, learned conversations, appreciation of art, and scientific investigation, as well as extensive travel across time and space. The book proposes the interpretation that the illusionistic pergola was an artistic formula for the early modern perception of nature.
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Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life
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Europe in the Renaissance: Metamorphoses 1400-1600
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Renaissance & Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
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Jacques Jordaens: 1593-1678: Allegories of Fruitfulness and Abundance
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Raffael Als Zeichner / Raphael As Draughtsman
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Raphael
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Jean Fouquet, the Martyrdom of St Apollonia, and the History of the Theatre: Iconography and the Limits of Evidence
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A Short History of the Renaissance in Europe
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Raphael’s Tapestries: The Grotesques of Leo X
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Geometry & Art: How Mathematics Transformed Art During the Renaissance
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Sublime Truth and the Senses: Titian’s Poesie for King Philip II of Spain
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Birds, Other Animals and Natural Curiosities
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Visual Typology in Early Modern Europe: Continuity and Expansion
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Jews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598-1638
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Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance
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Giotto
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Renaissance Paintings
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Renaissance
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Beyond Caravaggio
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