Rethinking the High Renaissance

Jill Burke is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• Contents: Preface; Inventing the High Renaissance from Winckelmann to Wikipedia: an introductory essay, Jill Burke; Part I Vantage Points: Teaching (and thinking about) the High Renaissance, with some observations on its relationship to Classical Antiquity, Brian A. Curran; Figments and fragments: Julius II's Rome, Suzanne B. Butters; Humanists, historians and the fullness of time in Renaissance Rome, Kenneth Gouwens; Cellini's Roma, Gwendolyn Trottein; On the unity/disunity of the arts: Vasari (and others) on architecture, David Cast. Part II Making the High Renaissance: Classicism, Conflation and Culmination: Bramante and the origins of the 'High Renaissance', Christoph Luitpold Frommel; Classical mistranslations: the absence of a modular system in Calvo's De Architectura, Angeliki Pollali; Giuliano da Sangallo between Florentine Quattrocento and Roman High Renaissance, Sabine Frommel; Perugino, Raphael and the decoration of the Stanza dell'Incendio, Michael Bury; Forgery, faith and divine hierarchy after Lorenzo Valla, Meredith J. Gill; The conception and design of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling: 'wishing to shed a little light upon the whole rather than mentioning the parts', David Hemsoll; Pope Clement VII and the decorum of medieval art, Sheryl E. Reiss; Bibliography; Index.

'The volume deserves to be commended for its graceful approach to the High Renaissance, conveying the hazards but also the value of employing such a concept. By acknowledging the High Renaissance as a construct of extraordinary enduring power, and also by linking it to sixteenth-century practice and experience, this book encourages new ways of thinking for specialists and a broad interested public alike.' Sixteenth Century Journal