The Mirror of the Gods - How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods

Macolm Bull

Oxford

2006

464 páginas

15h 28m

ISBN-10: 0140266089

The challenge of the Renaissance was not the recovery of the past, but finding the spark that had given it life. The lamp still burning was a fantasy; the flame had to be rekindled. This involved more than just reclothing the gods and heroes of antiquity with their antique forms; it meant finding new homes for them, and giving them new identities, and inventing new ways for them to relate to each other.