A Guide to Myth and Religion in European Painting 1270-1700

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familiar but now fr .ories
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provides a valuable anion to
gallery visitors and an ^dispensable
reference book for students ofart
history.
Do you know what Venus is saying
to Adonis, or what passed between
Diana and Endymion ? When you
look at a medieval painting ofthe
Crucifixion, can you tell whose
skull is lying at the foot ofthe
cross, or why one ofthe Roman
soldiers is pointing to his own
eyes ? Themes that seem to belong
to classical mythology and ancient
history were often known to the
artists only in much later versions,
and many stories one would look
for in the Bible really belong to
medieval legend. The sober,
factual scholarship and theology of
recent centuries has largely
suppressed the fabulous, highly
imaginative legends that were once
such a prominent feature ofthe
European tradition.
The authors have relied entirely on
original sources, from the Bible and
Ovid to little-known Medieval
and Renaissance writers, many of
whom - like the once widely read
Jacopo da Bergamo and John
Molanus-haveneverbeentranslated
into English. Succinct quotations
and summaries present the versions
the artists themselves seem to have
known. The result is a uaique
guide to the most impenant titomes
in European painting in ;.c period
1270-1700.
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Myth
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The stories as the artists knew them
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Satia Robert Bernen
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George Braziller • York
Published in the United States in 1973 by George Braziller, Inc.
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Copyright 1973 by Satia and Robert Bernen
Originally published in England by Constable and Company, Ltd.
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One Park Avenue, New York 10016
Standard Book Number: 0-8076-0683-9, cloth
0-8076-0682-0, paper
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 72-96070
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First Printing