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Perpetual Motion: Transforming Shapes in the Renaissance From Da Vinci to Montaigne
Author: Michel Jeanneret
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The popular conception of the Renaissance as a culture devoted to order and perfection does not account for an important characteristic of Renaissance art many of the periods major works, including those by da Vinci, Erasmus, Michelangelo, Ronsard, and Montaigne, appeared as works-in-progress, always liable to changes and additions. In Perpetual Motion, Michel Jeanneret argues for a sixteenth century swept up in change and fascinated by genesis and metamorphosis.Jeanneret begins by tracing the metamorphic sensibility in sixteenth-century science and culture. Theories of creation and cosmology, of biology and geology, profoundly affected the perspectives of leading thinkers and artists on the nature of matter and form. The conception of humanity (as understood by Pico de Mirandola, Erasmus, Rabelais, and others), reflections upon history, the theory and practice of language, all led to new ideas, new genres, and a new interest in the diversity of experience. Jeanneret goes on to show that the invention of the printing press did not necessarily produce more stable literary texts than those transmitted orally or as hand-printed manuscriptsauthors incorporated ideas of transformation into the process of composing and revising and encouraged creative interpretations from their readers, translators, and imitators. Extending the argument to the visual arts, Jeanneret considers da Vincis sketches and paintings, changing depictions of the world map, the mythological sculptures in the gardens of Prince Orsini in Bomarzo, and many other Renaissance works. More than fifty illustrations supplement his analysis.ReviewThis ambitious, broadly integrative book argues persuasively for a late Renaissance whose art and literature were shaped by a widespread metamorphic sensibility.(Colin Dickson Sixteenth Century Journal )[ Perpetual Motion], by Michel Jeanneret, is brilliant and the translation by Nidra Pollet doesnt sound like a translation (a great compliment).(L. R. N. Ashley Bibliotheque dHumanism et Renaissance )Jeannerets work offers both breadth of scope and depth of interpretation to scholars and students of the Renaissance who seek to understand the generating circumstances of humanist thought and of the art they created.(Deborah N. Losse Modern Language Notes )A brilliant exercise in cultural Geitsgeschichte by way of historically contextualized aesthetics.(Francois Rigolot Sixteenth Century Journal ) ReviewAn important book, not only because it has so much to say about significant topics such as creativity, the enhanced status of the artistwriter, the value of the unfinished and interpretation, but also because it offers a view of the Renaissance that coheres... It is refreshing to explore this complicated scene in the company of so informed a scholar, whose pen effortlessly follows the flux and mutations he perceives.(Margaret M. McGowan Times Literary Supplement )This superb study is immaculately presented... It is a source of endless pleasure to read, and one is constantly delighted by the insights it provides, and the new contexts in which often well-known material appears.(Trevor Peach Modern Language Review )There exists no finer or clearer overview of the creative drives of the Renaissance.(Tom Conley Renaissance Quarterly )
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The popular conception of the Renaissance as a culture devoted to order and perfection does not account for an important characteristic of Renaissance art many of the periods major works, including those by da Vinci, Erasmus, Michelangelo, Ronsard, and Montaigne, appeared as works-in-progress, always liable to changes and additions. In Perpetual Motion, Michel Jeanneret argues for a sixteenth century swept up in change and fascinated by genesis and metamorphosis.Jeanneret begins by tracing the metamorphic sensibility in sixteenth-century science and culture. Theories of creation and cosmology, of biology and geology, profoundly affected the perspectives of leading thinkers and artists on the nature of matter and form. The conception of humanity (as understood by Pico de Mirandola, Erasmus, Rabelais, and others), reflections upon history, the theory and practice of language, all led to new ideas, new genres, and a new interest in the diversity of experience. Jeanneret goes on to show that the invention of the printing press did not necessarily produce more stable literary texts than those transmitted orally or as hand-printed manuscriptsauthors incorporated ideas of transformation into the process of composing and revising and encouraged creative interpretations from their readers, translators, and imitators. Extending the argument to the visual arts, Jeanneret considers da Vincis sketches and paintings, changing depictions of the world map, the mythological sculptures in the gardens of Prince Orsini in Bomarzo, and many other Renaissance works. More than fifty illustrations supplement his analysis.ReviewThis ambitious, broadly integrative book argues persuasively for a late Renaissance whose art and literature were shaped by a widespread metamorphic sensibility.(Colin Dickson Sixteenth Century Journal )[ Perpetual Motion], by Michel Jeanneret, is brilliant and the translation by Nidra Pollet doesnt sound like a translation (a great compliment).(L. R. N. Ashley Bibliotheque dHumanism et Renaissance )Jeannerets work offers both breadth of scope and depth of interpretation to scholars and students of the Renaissance who seek to understand the generating circumstances of humanist thought and of the art they created.(Deborah N. Losse Modern Language Notes )A brilliant exercise in cultural Geitsgeschichte by way of historically contextualized aesthetics.(Francois Rigolot Sixteenth Century Journal ) ReviewAn important book, not only because it has so much to say about significant topics such as creativity, the enhanced status of the artistwriter, the value of the unfinished and interpretation, but also because it offers a view of the Renaissance that coheres... It is refreshing to explore this complicated scene in the company of so informed a scholar, whose pen effortlessly follows the flux and mutations he perceives.(Margaret M. McGowan Times Literary Supplement )This superb study is immaculately presented... It is a source of endless pleasure to read, and one is constantly delighted by the insights it provides, and the new contexts in which often well-known material appears.(Trevor Peach Modern Language Review )There exists no finer or clearer overview of the creative drives of the Renaissance.(Tom Conley Renaissance Quarterly )
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