ISBN:
9789004349926
Language:
English
Pages:
XXXIV, 568 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Intersections volume 56
Series Statement:
Intersections
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Solitudo
DDC:
700/.453
Keywords:
Solitude in art
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Solitude in literature
;
Arts, Medieval Themes, motives
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Arts, Modern Themes, motives
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift 2015
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Einsamkeit
;
Einsamkeit
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Literatur
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Kunst
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Architektur
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Emblem
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Geschichte 1500-1700
Abstract:
Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Foundations, shifts, and transformations -- Petrarch's constructions of the sacred solitary place in De Vita Solitaria and other writings / Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Monastic solitude as spiritual remedy and firewall against reformation: Cornelius Musius's reappraisal of the Vita Solitaria (1566) / Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Concepts of solitude in Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea / Dominic E. Delarue -- 'Sacred woods': Performing solitude at the court of Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria / Christine Göttler -- Solitude in the pictorial and emblematic imagination -- Anachoretic ideals in urban settings: Meditational practices and mural painting in Trecento Italy / Raphaèle Preisinger -- Constructing the imaginary desert of the soul in emblematic literature / Agnès Guiderdoni -- Emblemata solitariae Passionis: Jan David, S.J., on the solitary passion of Christ / Walter S. Melion -- Landscapes of solitude -- Giovanni Bellini's San Francesco nel deserto / Oskar Bätschmann -- Landscapes and visual exegesis: Solitude in the Chapel of Fra Mariano Fetti in San Silvestro al Quirinale / Steffen Zierholz -- Alone at the summit: Solitude and the ascetic imagination at the Sacro Monte of Varallo / Carla Benzan -- Architectures of solitude -- Dead men talking: The Studiolo of Urbino. A Duke in mourning and the Petrarchan tradition / Christiane J. Hessler -- Sociable solitude: The early modern hermitage as proto-museum / Arnold A. Witte -- A solitude of permeable boundaries: The Abbey of La Trappe between isolation and engagement / Mette Birkedal Bruun -- Mirrors and memories: The Chinese mirror cabinet at the Hermitage near Bayreuth / Marie Theres Stauffer -- Solitude in antiquarian and natural history -- The prophetess in the woods: The early modern debate about Veleda, Aurinia, and Vola / Bernd Roling -- Passer solitarius: Tribulations of a lonely bird in poetry and natural history, from Petrarch to Buffon / Paul J. Smith
