The Mythological Origins of Renaissance Florence: The City as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem

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Irina Chernetsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

The Mythological Origins of Renaissance Florence

The City as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem

Irina Chernetsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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English

Cambridge University Press
13 October 2022

In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted Florence as the reincarnation of the great cities of pagan and Christian antiquity - Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. The architectural image of an ideal Florence was discussed in chronicles and histories, poetry and prose, and treatises on art and religious sermons. It was also portrayed in paintings, sculpture, and sketches, as well as encoded in buildings erected during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Over time, the concept of an ideal Florence became inseparable from the real city, in both its social and architectural structures. Chernetsky demonstrates how the Renaissance notion of genealogy was applied to Florence, which was considered to be part of a family of illustrious cities of both the past and present. She also explores the concept of the ideal city in its intellectual, political, and aesthetic contexts, while offering new insights into the experience of urban space.

By: Irina Chernetsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 176mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9781316510957
ISBN 10: 1316510956
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 13 October 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Florence as a New Athens; 2. Florence as a New Rome; 3. Florence as a New Jerusalem; 4. Florence as a New Florence.

Irina Chernetsky is a scholar of Renaissance art and a participant in the Projections of Jerusalem in Europe research group. Her scholarship has been supported by the European Research Council, the Israel Science Foundation, and the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research.