Simona Cohen, Professor of Art History at Tel-Aviv University, was Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and taught at the International University in Venice. She has published extensively on Renaissance iconography, Venetian painting, animal symbolism, and representations of Time. Her book Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art, was published by Brill (2008).

• List of Illustrations ........ ixAcknowledgments ........ xixColor PlatesIntroduction ........ 1PART ONE: SOURCES AND PROTOTYPES OF THE RENAISSANCE ICONOGRAPHY OF TIME1. Concepts of Time in Classical Philosophy ........ 52. Classical Personifications of Time ........ 133. Early Christian and Medieval Concepts of Time ........ 394. Time and Temporality in Medieval Art ........ 535. The Romanesque Zodiac: Its Symbolic Function on the Church Facade ........ 87PART TWO: CHANGING CONCEPTS OF TIME IN THE RENAISSANCEIntroduction: Changing Concepts of Time in the Renaissance ........ 1156. The Renaissance Personification of Time in Illustrations to Petrarch’s Trionfo del Tempo ........ 1177. Time, Virtuousness and Wisdom in Giorgione’s Castelfranco Fresco ........ 1738. Kairos/Occasio—Vicissitudes of Propitious Time from Antiquity to the Renaissance ........1999. Veritas filia temporis: Time in Cinquecento Propaganda ........ 245Epilogue ........ 305Appendix I: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts of Petrarch’s Trionfi Located in European and American Collections ........ 313Appendix II: Illustrated Incunabula and Books Containing Petrarch’s Trionfi, 1478–1610 ........ 336Select Bibliography ........ 339Index ........ 353

Simona Cohen, Professor of Art History at Tel-Aviv University, was Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and taught at the International University in Venice. She has published extensively on Renaissance iconography, Venetian painting, animal symbolism, and representations of Time. Her book Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art, was published by Brill (2008).

• List of Illustrations ........ ixAcknowledgments ........ xixColor PlatesIntroduction ........ 1PART ONE: SOURCES AND PROTOTYPES OF THE RENAISSANCE ICONOGRAPHY OF TIME1. Concepts of Time in Classical Philosophy ........ 52. Classical Personifications of Time ........ 133. Early Christian and Medieval Concepts of Time ........ 394. Time and Temporality in Medieval Art ........ 535. The Romanesque Zodiac: Its Symbolic Function on the Church Facade ........ 87PART TWO: CHANGING CONCEPTS OF TIME IN THE RENAISSANCEIntroduction: Changing Concepts of Time in the Renaissance ........ 1156. The Renaissance Personification of Time in Illustrations to Petrarch’s Trionfo del Tempo ........ 1177. Time, Virtuousness and Wisdom in Giorgione’s Castelfranco Fresco ........ 1738. Kairos/Occasio—Vicissitudes of Propitious Time from Antiquity to the Renaissance ........1999. Veritas filia temporis: Time in Cinquecento Propaganda ........ 245Epilogue ........ 305Appendix I: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts of Petrarch’s Trionfi Located in European and American Collections ........ 313Appendix II: Illustrated Incunabula and Books Containing Petrarch’s Trionfi, 1478–1610 ........ 336Select Bibliography ........ 339Index ........ 353

Simona Cohen, Professor of Art History at Tel-Aviv University, was Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and taught at the International University in Venice. She has published extensively on Renaissance iconography, Venetian painting, animal symbolism, and representations of Time. Her book Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art, was published by Brill (2008).

• List of Illustrations ........ ixAcknowledgments ........ xixColor PlatesIntroduction ........ 1PART ONE: SOURCES AND PROTOTYPES OF THE RENAISSANCE ICONOGRAPHY OF TIME1. Concepts of Time in Classical Philosophy ........ 52. Classical Personifications of Time ........ 133. Early Christian and Medieval Concepts of Time ........ 394. Time and Temporality in Medieval Art ........ 535. The Romanesque Zodiac: Its Symbolic Function on the Church Facade ........ 87PART TWO: CHANGING CONCEPTS OF TIME IN THE RENAISSANCEIntroduction: Changing Concepts of Time in the Renaissance ........ 1156. The Renaissance Personification of Time in Illustrations to Petrarch’s Trionfo del Tempo ........ 1177. Time, Virtuousness and Wisdom in Giorgione’s Castelfranco Fresco ........ 1738. Kairos/Occasio—Vicissitudes of Propitious Time from Antiquity to the Renaissance ........1999. Veritas filia temporis: Time in Cinquecento Propaganda ........ 245Epilogue ........ 305Appendix I: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts of Petrarch’s Trionfi Located in European and American Collections ........ 313Appendix II: Illustrated Incunabula and Books Containing Petrarch’s Trionfi, 1478–1610 ........ 336Select Bibliography ........ 339Index ........ 353