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This volume brings together studies on the diverse ways that the genres and usage of hymns and sequences transformed in the middle ages and early modern period, taking them from being Latin liturgies to becoming vernacular meditations.

Pavlina Kulagina, HU Berlin, Germany; Franziska Lallinger, Univ. of Jena, Germany.

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Vom Hymnus zum Gebet. Gattungs- und Gebrauchswechsel liturgischer Lieder in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, éd. Pavlina Kulagina, Franziska Lallinger, Boston–Vienne, De Gruyter, 2022 ; 1 vol., X–310 p. (Liturgie und Volkssprache, 6). ISBN : 978-3-11074-819-2. Prix : € 92,95.

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In this book Claudia Daniotti provides the first comprehensive study of the representation of Alexander the Great in Renaissance Italian art, exploring a fundamental turning point in the tradition: the transition from the medieval imagery of Alexander as a legendary, fairy-tale hero to the new historically grounded portrait of him as an example of moral virtue and military prowess.

During the Middle Ages, Alexander was turned into a fabled creature and fearless explorer, whose Flight to Heaven and other marvellous adventures were tirelessly recounted and illustrated, enjoying huge popularity. With the humanist recovery of the ancient historical texts and the changing taste and expectations of the wider, wealthier and more diverse public of the courts and cities of the Italian peninsula, the fabulous aura that had surrounded Alexander for centuries evaporated. He was recast as the moral exemplum and valorous military commander spoken of by the newly available ancient historians, and became the protagonist of an unprecedently vast iconographic repertoire established in the course of the sixteenth century.

By discussing a body of artworks from 1160s to 1560s spanning several media (from illuminated manuscripts and frescoes to sculptural reliefs, wedding chests and tapestries) and researching this material in constant dialogue with the literary tradition, this book offers a reassessment of the whole visual tradition of Alexander in Renaissance Italy, making sense of a figurative repertoire often perceived as fragmentary and disparate, and casting new light on an overall still neglected chapter in the tradition of the myth of Alexander.

Claudia Daniotti is an art historian specialising in Italian Renaissance art, with an emphasis on iconography, the classical tradition, and the transmission of visual motifs from antiquity to the present times. She holds a PhD from the Warburg Institute, London, and is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1. The Legendary Tradition of Alexander in Medieval Art and Literature  
The Medieval Tradition in Italy: An Overview

Episodes from the Legend: The Begetting and Birth of Alexander; The Taming of Bucephalus; The Flight with Griffins; The Submarine Voyage; The Visit to the Trees of the Sun and the Moon

Chapter 2. The Persistence of the Legendary Tradition in Fifteenth-Century Italian Art  
Marvellous Adventures in the East in the Doria Tapestries

The Flight with Griffins in a Curtius Rufus Manuscript

Alexander as King of Swords in the Sola-Busca Tarocchi

A Fifteenth-Century Drawing Depicting the Submarine Voyage

Alexander among the Nine Worthies: the Sala Baronale in the Castle della Manta; the Triads of Castel Roncolo; the Castelnuovo Cycle; the ‘Cavalcavia’ with the Worthies of Palazzo Trinci

Chapter 3. The Humanist Recovery of Ancient Historical Sources and Its Impact on the Reception of Alexander      
The Recovery of the Ancient Greek Sources: Plutarch’s Life of Alexander; Arrian’s Anabasis; Diodorus Siculus’s Bibliotheca Historica

The Revived Interest in the Ancient Latin Sources: Curtius Rufus’s Historiae Alexandri Magni; Justin’s Epitoma Historiarum Philippicarum
Humanist Use of Ancient Sources: Petrarch; Giovanni Boccaccio; Angelo Decembrio’s De politia litteraria; Pier Paolo Vergerio

Chapter 4. The Emergence of a New Renaissance Iconography in the Fifteenth Century  
Alexander on Cassone Panels: The Battle of Issus and the Meeting with the Family of Darius; Two Sienese Panels Based on Plutarch

Alexander and the Cycles of Uomini famosi: An Introduction to the Uomini famosi in Italian Art; Representations of Alexander in Uomini famosi Cycles; Medieval Cycles (The Castel Nuovo Cycle, Naples); Transitional Cycles (The Cycle in the Aula Minor, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; The Cycle in the Orsini Palace of Monte Giordano, Rome); Humanist Cycles (Alexander in the Sala dei Giganti, Padua; The Cycle in the Corte Ducale, Palazzo dell’Arengo, Milan; The ‘Piccolomini Cycle’ of Famous Men and Women)

Images of Alexander in Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts: Images of Alexander Based on Ancient Numismatic Prototypes (Alexander Wearing the Lion-Skin of Hercules; the Helmeted Alexander; Alexander with the Horns of Zeus Ammon); A Curtius Rufus Manuscript “Illustrated like a Romance Text”
         
Chapter 5. The Development and Consolidation of Renaissance
Iconography in the Sixteenth Century                  
Selected Episodes from the Life of Alexander: The Meeting with the Women of Darius; The Marriage of Alexander and Roxane; Alexander, Apelles and Campaspe; The Taming of Bucephalus; The Birth (and Begetting) of Alexander
Conclusion

Conclusion                      
Appendices
Bibliography
Index of names
List of Illustrations
Table of contents

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Claudia Daniotti, Reinventing Alexander. Myth, Legend, History in Renaissance Italian Art, Turnhout, Brepls, 2022 ; 1 vol., 348 p. (Alexander redivivus, 15). ISBN : 978-2-503-59743-0. Prix ;: € 100,00.

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L’activité des peintres et sculpteurs qui ont travaillé au cours des siècles gothiques et de la Renaissance continue de susciter un grand intérêt parmi les spécialistes de l’art occidental. L’une des approches les plus suggestives pour comprendre la gestation et la diffusion de la production artistique est d’aborder le phénomène comme un fait multiforme et complexe du point de vue historico-artistique. La connaissance des matériaux et des procédés techniques utilisés est également enrichissante, ainsi que les liens entre les œuvres et les ateliers, auxquels on accède en suivant le parcours des marchands qui transportaient les pigments, les laques et les teintures et en recherchant la trace de l’itinérant. des artistes qui diffusent leur savoir dans les ports de destination.

Sept auteurs, issus de différentes universités et centres de recherche d’Europe et des États-Unis, spécialistes de l’histoire de l’art médiéval et moderne, présentent dans cet ouvrage leurs dernières contributions, exposées lors de la conférence « Rutas de mercado, rutas de arte: 1.as Jornadas Internacionales. Materiales, procedimientos y artistas en la configuración pictórica en el Mediterráneo del siglo XV», qui a eu lieu à l’Universitat Politècnica de València et au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valence les 17 et 18 novembre 2021.

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Rutas de mercado, rutas de arte: Materiales, procedimientos y artistas en la configuración pictórica en el Mediterráneo del siglo XV, éd. Joan Aliaga Morell et Nuria Ramón Marqués, Valence, Tirant Editorial, 2022 ; 1 vol., 172 p. (Plural). ISBN : 978-8-41937-610-7. Prix : € 16,90.

Source : Tirant Editorial