Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art by Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
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.
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Disalienations
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Contemporary Art in Bosnia-Herzegovina
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Art and Modernism in Socialist China
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Drawing Pedagogy in Modern France
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The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms
- The Plaster Cast Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Art and the Waters of Italy
- The New Perspectiva Artificialis
- Art, Design, and Animal Studies
- French Images of America in the Age of Revolutions
- Conceptual Art After Modernism
- The Creation, Diffusion, and Reception of Italian Art in the Early Modern Iberian World
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Apocalypse in British Art and Visual Culture in the Early Twentieth Century
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Exhibiting Animals in Europe and America
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John Cage Composing, Computing, and Curating
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Collections, Exhibitions and Museums in Portugal and Its Empire
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Ambition, Art, and Image-Making in an Early Quattrocento Court
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Sonic Sculpture and the Performative Impulse
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The Living Image in the Middle Ages and Beyond
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Bernini Ephemeral and Preparatory Sculpture
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The Visual Culture of al-Andalus in the Christian Kingdoms of Iberia
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Bananas, Art, and Visual Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Gustav Klimt and Japanese Art in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
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Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire
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The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature
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Historic Avant-Garde Work on Paper
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Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis
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Art Collecting and Middle Class Culture from London to Brighton, 1840–1914
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Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art
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Surrealism and the People’s Republic of China
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Dada and Its Later Manifestations in the Geographic Margins
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Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space
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Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin de Siècle
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Decay in Ruskin's Architecture, Geology, and Wisdom
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The Book of Hours and the Body
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Affect, Intimacy and Ecology of Mind in Neurofeedback Art
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Art and Artifice in Visual Culture
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Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art
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Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture
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Kandinsky’s Abstract Orientalism
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The Mobility of People and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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James McNeill Whistler’s Reception and Artistic Legacy
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Theorising the Artist Interview
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781032324951 |
| ISBN 10 | 1032324953 |
| Title | Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art |
| Author | Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes |
| Series | Routledge Research In Art History |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2025-12-26 |
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