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Epic arts in Renaissance France

By Usher , Phillip John

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780199687848, 0199687846
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
227 MB (237552557 bytes)
Pages
253\266
Time added
2020-11-29 04:14:10

Description

This book studies the relationship between epic literature and other art forms such as painting, sculpture, and architecture. Why, the book asks, the epic heroes and themes so ubiquitous in French Renaissance art are widely celebrated whereas the same period's literary epics, frequently maligned, now go unread? To explore this paradox, the book investigates a number of epic building sites, i.e. specific situations in which literary epics either become the basis for realisations in other art forms or somehow contest or compete with them.

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