Titian & tragic painting : Aristotle's poetics and the rise of the modern artist / by Puttfarken, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On the status of painting in the Renaissance -- Painting, poetry and the liberal arts -- Imitation, moral purpose and learning -- Tragedy -- Titian and tragedy -- The four great sinners -- Michelangelo and Titian: terribilitᡠand tragic pathos -- Titian's mythological paintings: problems of interpretation -- Titian's poesie for Philip II as painted tragedies -- The final tragedies and Titian's 'late style' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”

The spiritual language of art : medieval Christian themes in writings on art of the Italian Renaissance / by Stowell, Steven, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Art and Compunction: Francesco Bocchi's Mystical Experience of Art; Compunction in Renaissance Literature on Art; Compunction and Popular Devotion at the Santissima Annunziata in Florence; Francesco Bocchi's Ekphrasis, Catharsis and Compunction; Purging and Nourishing; Chapter 2 Leon Battista Alberti's 'De pictura' and the Christian Tradition of the Liberal Arts; An Image Formed in the Mind and an Imitation of Nature; The Liberal Arts in Alberti and the Christian Tradition.…”
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The rhetoric of conversion in English Puritan writing from Perkins to Milton / by Parry, David

Futile pleasures : early modern literature and the limits of utility / by McEleney, Corey

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