Happy week-end everyone, I’m Elena and welcome back in Alessandro III di Macedonia! Today I’d like to announce you the publication of:
Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art. North and South of the Alps
by Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
Routledge
Publication day: April 22, 2024
This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about, and why they were so popular.
In contrast to the numerous studies on the historical and legendary figure of Alexander, surprisingly few studies have examined, in one volume, the visual representation of the Macedonian king in frescoes, oil paintings, engravings, manuscripts, medals, sculpture, and tapestries during the Renaissance. The book covers a broad geographical area and includes transalpine perspectives. Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes examines the role that humanists played in disseminating the stories about Alexander and explores why Alexander was so popular during the Renaissance. Alexander-Skipnes offers cultural, political, and social perspectives on the Macedonian king and shows how Renaissance artists and patrons viewed Alexander the Great.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, ancient Greek history, and classics.
Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes is a lecturer in Art History at the Kunstgeschichtliches Institut at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. She is an associate professor emerita of the University of Stavanger, Norway.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Alexander’s Ancient Authors, Renaissance Humanists, and Altdorfer’s Painting
3. Alexander among the Nine Worthies and the Uomini famosi
4. Alexander in Renaissance Rome
5. Depicting the Macedonian King beyond Rome
6. Alexander’s Court Painter, Apelles, and his Fame among Renaissance Artists
7. The King’s Horse, Bucephalus
8. Alexander in Renaissance Tapestries and Petrarch’s Triumph of Fame
9. Alexander at the Château de Fontainebleau
Epilogue
Hardback
£ 104.00 – € 157,45
ISBN 978-1032324944
192 Pages 6 Color & 54 B/W Illustrations
April 22, 2024 by Routledge
This book, like practically all those published by Routledge, is also a must read in my opinion, but I will wait until it comes out at a lower price. A book of this kind is aimed at a very limited audience, of specialists and those who are truly curious and want to know everything, absolutely everything about Alexander the Great.
Happy Saturday everyone,
Alessandro III di Macedonia 