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Yan Brailowsky deposited « La tête qui bondit » ou la décollation de Marie Stuart in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 5 days agoMary Stuart’s Bouncing Head
Execution scenes reveal the links between the spectacular and the punitive (Michel Foucault), but they are difficult to stage, even more so when the topic is the decapitation of Mary Stuart, whose execution divided Catholics and Protestants, forcing playwrights to adopt several mediation strategies. Taking plays by J…[Read more]
RONALD VINCE deposited Jean de la Taille, Saul in his Madness (Saül le furieux) in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days agoJean de la Taille’s “Saül le furieux” (1562) has been described as “the most dramatic play produced by the French Renaissance,” and the author’s preface to the play in the printed edition of 1572, “De l’Art de la Tragedie,” as “certainly the best theoretical essay on the theatre written in France before the classical period.” These estimates by…[Read more]
Jason Rosenholtz-Witt started the topic CFP – Renaissance Bergamo at RSA 2021 in the discussion
Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoRenaissance Bergamo: At the Edge of the Venetian Terraferma
Present day Bergamo is bifurcated into an upper and lower portion of the city by the Venetian walls, built in 1561-1623 to discourage Milanese northward expansion, as well as to limit contraband trade. Bergamo was one of the most important of the strong points fortified by the Venetian…[Read more]
Robin Rolfhamre deposited Embellishing lute music: Using the Renaissance Italian passaggi practice as a model and pedagogical tool for an increased improvisation vocabulary in the French Baroque style in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoEarly seventeenth century lute improvisation — a phrase that by its mere utterance may cause debates full of uncertainties, fears and fantasies. What is proper improvisa-tion? How did they do it 360 years ago? In this article I seek to revive a systematic prac-tice of teaching ornamentation and improvisation from the Renaissance scholars — i.e…[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
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks 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]
Alexander J McNair deposited Pasillo del Cid Campeador: un curioso pliego suelto del siglo XIX in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks 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]
Cristelle Baskins started the topic CFP — IAS sponsored session at RSA Dublin 2021 in the discussion
Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks 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]
Carlotta Paltrinieri started the topic Online Lecture in the discussion
Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months agoOn July 11th, at 6pm, I will be giving a lecture on the Florentine academies (Disegno, Fiorentina, Crusca) as part of the online lectures series: “THE MEDICI AND THEIR ARCHIVES: ARTISTIC PATRONAGE AND DIPLOMACY”. If you are interested in the series you can register here: https://www.medici.org/map-online-lectures-series/
Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Architecture as Portrait: Exoticism and the Royal Character of the Louvre, 1380–1681 in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week agoThe architectural evolution of the Louvre between the 15th and 17th centuries is characterized by systematic attempts to distinguish the building within the broader context of French styles. In the 15th and early 16th centuries, this is achieved by producing grander and more elaborate versions of the contemporary French architectural solutions.…[Read more]
Ann E Mullaney deposited Pietro Bembo and the Erotic Lexicon in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoThe works of Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) intrigue readers approaching them from various angles… Here, my aim is modest: to highlight passages in Bembo’s literary texts which exploit the erotic lexicon so popular in his day.
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Alexander J McNair deposited Variantes y versos perdidos: El Cid Campeador de A. Enríquez Gómez entre el manuscrito (1660) y las comedias sueltas in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoEl Cid Campeador, obra teatral de Antonio Enríquez Gómez (1660-1663), se publicó reiteradamente a lo largo del siglo XVIII y los primeros años del XIX. La obra, casi desconocida hoy en día, gozó de una popularidad enorme entre 1700 y 1830, tanto en el teatro como en la imprenta, debido en parte a su tema histórico y el estilo barroco, tan de gus…[Read more]
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Alexander J McNair deposited A Critical Edition of Antonio Enríquez Gómez’s El Cid Campeador (1660): Project Narrative for Grant Proposal in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoThis paper is the project narrative for a grant proposal submitted in February 2019, that resulted in funding from two different sources to cover travel expenses in support of archival work in Spain (summer 2019). I share this project narrative to encourage others who are considering similar proposals, or who may be thinking about the scholarly…[Read more]
Cristina León Alfar deposited Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week agoIn this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]
Annika McQueen deposited Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660 – 1815 in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThis dissertation ‘Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660-1815’ addresses the lack of a localised study on this building type and supplements the wider body of work that has been undertaken, on inn form, function and innkeeping lifestyles in other regions of England during the long eighteenth century.
Flavia De Nicola deposited Nuove acquisizioni sulla prima attività romana di Michelangelo Buonarroti connessa con l’Umanesimo dei Pomponiani in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 7 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]
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Flavia De Nicola deposited Equus infoelicitatis: analisi iconografica di una xilografia dell’Hypnerotomachia Poliphili fra testo e immagine in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 7 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]
Martine van Elk deposited Female Glass Engravers in the Early Modern Dutch Republic in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months agoThis essay explores glass engravings by Dutch authors Anna Roemers Visscher, Maria Tesselschade
Roemers Visscher, and Anna Maria van Schurman. I place these engravings in their rich contemporary
contexts, comparing them to other art forms that were the product of female pastime. Like
embroidery, emblems, and alba amicorum, engraved glasses…[Read more]Elizabeth E. Tavares deposited Matisse in the Playhouse in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months, 4 weeks agoON MY WAY TO EAST LONDON from a Shakespeare’s Globe perform- ance in August 2017, I noticed an advertisement in one of the Tube stations. Accompanying the billing for the Royal Academy of Arts’ exhibition, Matisse in the Studio, was a quotation from Henri: “a good actor can have a part in ten different plays; an object can play a role in ten diffe…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic New publication in the discussion
Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week agoAlfar, Cristina León “Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 3, Nov. 2019, pp. 789–819. (Available through ProjectMuse muse.jhu.edu/article/741025.)
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Yan Brailowsky deposited Ab ovo or in medias res? Rewriting History for the Early Modern Stage Or, How Elizabethan History Plays Collapsed Referentiality in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoShakespeare’s representations of history often have replaced history itself in the popular imagination: Julius Caesar, Margaret of Anjou, Henry V, Richard III — popular recollections of their lives and deaths are intimately linked with Shakespeare’s accounts of their stories, despite the playwright’s deviations from historical facts. In order t…[Read more]
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