Of the Beauty of Women
By:"Agnolo Firenzuola"
Published on 1892 by
This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword beauty.
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Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece
Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece
By:"Claude Calame","Derek Collins","Janice Orion"
Published on 2001-01-01 by Rowman & Littlefield
In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted the young girls to achieve the stature of womanhood and to be integrated into the adult civic community. This first English edition includes an updated bibliography.
This Book was ranked 21 by Google Books for keyword young.
On the Beauty of Women
On the Beauty of Women
By:"Agnolo Firenzuola","Konrad Eisenbichler","Jacqueline Murray"
Published on 1992 by University of Pennsylvania Press
First published in 1548, On the Beauty of Women purports to record two conversations shared by a young gentleman, Celso, and four ladies of the upper bourgeoisie in the vicinity of Florence. One afternoon Celso and the ladies consider universal beauty. On a subsequent evening, they attempt to fashion a composite picture of perfect beauty by combining the beautiful features of women they know. The standards of beauty established in the garden give way to the artistic, creative imagination of the human spirit, and the group's movement from garden to hall seems to echo the dialogue's movement from Nature to Art, from divinely to humanly created beauty. Konrad Eisenbichler and Jacqueline Murray have provided the first translation into English of Firenzuola's dialogue since the nineteenth century. In their introduction, they argue that Firenzuola's work presents a useful point of entry into the society and values of the mid-sixteenth century. In its discussion of beauty, the dialogue reveals the intersection of Neoplantonic philosophy and mathematically based artistic theory, both inherited from classical antiquity. Indeed, Firenzuola's treatise has been assessed as one of the most significant expositions of Renaissance aesthetics.
This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword beauty.
