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Beautiful Scars: Jewels in English Renaissance Drama

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Hopkins L.

Linguaculture

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2012

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vol. 2012

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issue 1

9-26

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In An Englis[h[ expositor[:] teaching the in[ter]pretation of the harde[st] words [vsed] in our language, John Bullokar notes that the word carbuncle ‘hath two significations, namely a precious stone, and a dangerous sore’.(sig. D2r) Generally speaking Renaissance texts keep these two meanings separate: in ways which are inevitably conditioned by the nature of their subject matter, Renaissance authors tend to be interested in exploring either the idea of carbuncle as jewel or the idea of carbuncle as tumour without ever registering the possibility of the alternative meeting for the word. Nevertheless the ambiguity is there: a jewel, a thing of beauty intended for the adornment of the body, is also in some sense potentially a disfiguring mark, a scar on the body marking the site of a trauma. In A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway asks “Why should our bodies end at the skin?” (online); in this essay, I shall argue that as far as Renaissance jewels are concerned, bodies do not in fact end at the skin, for jewels mark not the end of the body but an edge, a hinge between body and mind as much as between body and dress, in ways which activate fears about permeability, boundary blurring and the monstrous. One of the rare instances of evoking both senses of carbuncle comes in The Comedy of Errors, where Dromio of Syracuse, having defined the kitchen-maid Nell as “spherical, like a globe”, says that “America, the Indies” are located in her nose, because it is ‘all o’er embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain’ (III.ii.120, 140-3). To varying extent, the horror of the gross, the extreme and the unnatural which is implicit here can be seen as potentially lurking in all Renaissance descriptions of jewellery.

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Perseus as Alter Ego of Ferdinand I

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Bažant J.

Studia Hercynia

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2016

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vol. 20

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issue 1

127-150

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The paper analyses three relief sculptures that decorate spandrels of the northern façade of the Prague Belvedere, which was built by Ferdinand I between 1538 and ca. 1550. Their uniqueness consists in that it is the first series inspired by the myth of Perseus in Renaissance architectural sculpture. We find here, from left to right: Perseus freeing Andromeda, Perseus turning Atlas into a rock by showing him the head of Medusa, and Pegasus creating a source of poetical inspiration. The monogram, FA (Ferdinand I and Anna, his wife) is the only inscription on this villa and it has a crucial role in the villa decoration. We may consider Perseus as alter ego of Ferdinand I.

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The work of Feliks Stanisław Jasiński (1862–1901) and the question of graphic reproductions of works of art

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Ubysz-Piasecka K.

Rocznik Historii Sztuki

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2020

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issue XLV

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Sul manoscritto testamentario di Bartolomeo Berrecci: uno sguardo storico-linguistico

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Palmarini L.

Italica Wratislaviensia

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2019

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issue 10.1

309-329

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The following article presents the analysis of the last will of the most famous Renaissance sculptor and architect in Poland: the Tuscan Bartolomeo Berrecci, creator of the Sigismund Chapel in the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków. After a brief historical-cultural introduction where the artist’s arrival in Poland and his function at the court of King Sigismund I the Old are presented, the transcription of the artist’s testament, written by his own hand in the Italian language and recorded in the archives of the ancient city of Kazimierz, is included, followed by an in-depth analysis. At first, the analysis will concentrate on content and structure: the characters and properties mentioned in the document will be presented along with the document’s form. Subsequently, morphological and terminological analyses will be carried out, which will confirm the use of the Florentine language of the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries, as well as the presence of specific terms related to the Polish reality in which the artist lived for almost 20 years, giving the document historical and linguistic value, in addition to classic values that are spiritual and notarial.

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Il seguente articolo presenta l’analisi del testamento del più famoso scultore e architetto del Rinascimento in Polonia: il toscano Bartolomeo Berrecci, autore, tra le altre opere, della Cappella di Sigismondo nella cattedrale del Wawel a Cracovia. Dopo una breve introduzione storico-culturale in cui vengono presentati il suo arrivo in Polonia e la sua funzione alla corte del re Sigismondo il Vecchio, viene riportata la trascrizione del testamento dell’artista, redatto di propria mano in lingua italiana e conservato negli archivi dell’antica città di Casimiria, cui segue un’approfondita analisi. Dapprima essa sarà di carattere contenutistico e strutturale: verranno infatti esposti i personaggi e le proprietà citate nel documento, così come la sua forma. In seguito si passerà alle analisi morfologica e terminologica in cui si troveranno conferme dell’utilizzo della lingua fiorentina di fine Quattrocento e primi Cinquecento, ma anche la presenza di termini specifici, come p. es. prestiti integrati, legati alla realtà polacca in cui l’artista visse per quasi un ventennio, conferendo al documento stesso, oltre ai classici valori spirituale e notarile, anche quelli storico e linguistico.

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Tim Shephard, Sanna Raninen, Serenella Sessini, Laura Ştefănescu, „Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, 1420‒1540”, London–Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2020, ss. 408. ISBN 978-1-912554-02-7

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Grabiec D.

Muzyka

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2022

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vol. 67

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issue 4

165-172

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The article concerns the book Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy 1420‒1540 by Tim Shephard, Sanna Raninen, Serenella Sessini and Laura Ştefănescu (Brepols 2020), devoted to music iconography and music during the Renaissance in Italy. Its purpose is to present the content of individual chapters to the Polish reader and draw attention to the most important threads and problems raised by the authors, as well as to an interesting methodological approach that allowed the authors to look at already known topics and works from a new perspective and show them in a broad cultural context.

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Artykuł dotyczy książki Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy 1420‒1540 autorstwa Tima Shepharda, Sanny Raninen, Serenelli Sessini i Laury Ştefănescu (Brepols 2020), poświęconej ikonografii muzycznej oraz muzyce w okresie renesansu we Włoszech. Jego celem jest prezentacja polskiemu czytelnikowi treści poszczególnych rozdziałów i zwrócenie uwagi na najważniejsze wątki i problemy poruszane przez autorów, a także na ciekawe ujęcie metodologiczne, które pozwoliło autorom spojrzeć na znane już tematy i dzieła z nowej perspektywy i ukazać je w szerokim kontekście kulturowym.

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Związki kultury zachodu i wschodu na przykładzie twórczości Hoca Mimara Sinana

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Banasik-Petri K.

Zeszyty Naukowe Uczelni Vistula

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2015

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issue 42(4)/2015 Architektura

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W artykule, na podstawie wybranych obiektów architektonicznych, ukazano związki i przenikanie się myśli artystycznej i architektonicznej w XVI wieku między stolicą Wschodu – Stambułem a stolicą potęgi morskiej Zachodu – Wenecją. Przykładem wymiany myśli w dziedzinie teorii architektury, architektury i inżynierii jest twórczość tureckiego architekta Hoca Mimara Sinana (ok. 1489-1588) oraz weneckiego architekta Andrei Palladia (1508-1580). Fascynacja architekturą i sztuką Zachodu jest widoczna w twórczości Sinana w poszukiwaniu formy, dekoracji oraz sposobie kompozycji opartej na harmonii matematycznego piękna będącego funkcją witruwiańskiej triady – firmitas, utilitas, venustas. Sinan, opierając się na klasycznych zasadach sztuki budowania, potrafił nadać swoim budowlom nowy, indywidualny wyraz. Synergia klasycznego umiłowania piękna i orientalnego kunsztu dekoracji promieniowała na Zachód swoją maestrią, nie dziwi więc, iż wybitny teoretyk i praktyk, jakim był Andrea Palladio, uległ fascynacji rozwiązań architekta ze Wschodu. W artykule przybliżono te wątki, ukazując dwie niezwykłe osobowości artystyczne na podstawie wybranych realizacji oraz odnosząc się do dzieła łączącego architektów – traktatu Witruwiusza pt. O architekturze ksiąg dziesięć.

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In her article, the author, based on the selected architectonic objects, showed the relationships and interpenetration of the artistic and architectonic thought in the 16th century between the capital of the East, Istanbul, and the capital of the maritime power of the West, Venice. An example of the thought in the field of the theory of architecture, architecture and engineering is the works of the Turkish architect Hoca Mimar Sinan (around 1489–1588) and the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). Fascination of the architecture and art of West is evident in the works of Sinan in seeking for the form, decoration, and the way of composition based on the harmony of mathematic beauty being a function of the Vitruvian triad: firmitas, utilitas, venustas. Sinan, relying on the classic rules of the art of building, managed to provide his constructions a new, individual expression. The synergy of the classic love of beauty and the oriental art of decoration emanated to West with its mastery; therefore, it is not surprising that an outstanding theoretician and practitioner, Andrea Palladio, yielded to fascination of the resolutions of the architect from East. In her article, the author brought closer those topics, presenting the two unusual artistic personalities based on the selected accomplishments and referring to the art linking the architects – the treatise of Vitruvius, entitled De Architectura libri decem.

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