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Item Number: 123465
Title: Il Sogno nel Rinascimento
Author: Rabbi Bernard, Chiara ; Alessandro Cecchi ; Yves Hersant
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788883476617
Description: Livorno: Sillabe, 2013. 28cm., pbk., 239pp. illus., 73 plates, most in color. Italian text. Exhibition held at Palazzo Pitti, Firenze. Summary: This exhibition will offer visitors a chance to explore, for the very first time, a theme as absorbing and as fascinating as the Renaissance Dream, shedding light on its richness and variety. The theme of the dream was considered to be of particular importance in ancient mythology and in the culture of the Renaissance, as shown by its widespread popularity in the figurative arts, particularly in works of religious art or in connection with the rediscovery of Classical mythology. Whether prophetic or premonitory, illustrated with famous stories from the Old Testament (Joseph explaining the dreams of Pharoah, Jacob's dream and so forth) or from visionary hagiography (the dreams of Constantine, St. Francis, St. Ursula and so on), the dream presents itself first and foremost as a manifestation and a revelation of a different world. It also displays, in a secular sense, the speculative and inductive potential that it offers the human mind; it transfigures daily life and reveals its erotic dimension; it plays a valuable role in the theory and practice of art, which focus just as much on dreams as they do on literature, philosophy and medicine.

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