Florence as “Paradise Lost”

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" Florence as “Paradise Lost” "
Roger J. Crum

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081908
Doc. No	:	LA125537
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02201014‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Roger J. Crum
Title & Author	:	Florence as “Paradise Lost” [Article]\ Roger J. Crum
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	22/1-2
Page No	:	8–15
Abstract	:	The city of Florence has been a place of artistic pilgrimage for centuries. This essay discusses late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American interest in Florence and, specifically, two of its masterpieces in Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus as indicative of a melancholic perspective on the Florentine Renaissance as a “Paradise Lost.” The city was ambivalently idealized as an “Earthly Paradise.” The city of Florence has been a place of artistic pilgrimage for centuries. This essay discusses late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American interest in Florence and, specifically, two of its masterpieces in Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus as indicative of a melancholic perspective on the Florentine Renaissance as a “Paradise Lost.” The city was ambivalently idealized as an “Earthly Paradise.”
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Bernard Berenson
Descriptor	:	Chalres Eliot Norton
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Dante
Descriptor	:	Domenico Michelino
Descriptor	:	E.M. Forster
Descriptor	:	Florence
Descriptor	:	Grand Tour
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	Jeff Koons
Descriptor	:	Lorenzo Ghiberti
Descriptor	:	Pluto and Proserpina
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Renaissance
Descriptor	:	Sandro Botticelli
Descriptor	:	tourism
Descriptor	:	Venus
Descriptor	:	Walter Pater
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02201014‬