Representing the Renaissance (Annotated Bibliography)
Dana Wheeles
University of Virginia
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Hewlett, Maurice. Quattrocentisteria (How Sandro Botticelli saw Simonetta in the spring). Portland, Maine : Thomas B. Mosher, 1908.
Commentary on For Our Lady of the Rocks, by Leonardo da Vinci
The Rossetti Archive
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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel For Our Lady of the Rocks. The Rossetti Archive.
This sonnet by Rossetti is yet another manifestation of the Victorian fascination with famous men and women of the Renaissance. As can be seen in the Romantic Circles edition of P.B. Shelley's On The Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo alone possessed quite a following. |
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Commentary for Rossetti's Annunciation
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McGann, Jerome. Commentary for "Ecce Ancilla Domini." The Rossetti Archive.
As McGann's commentary attests, the idea for this unusual treatment of the Virgin may have come from Rossetti's reading of a description in Anna Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art. |
Shelley, P.B. The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts. London : C and J Ollier Vere street, Bond street, 1821.
The story of the Cenci family was also a source of fascination throughout the nineteenth-century. Beatrice's murder of her oppressive father, and the details of her grisly execution were the topics of a number of heated debates. Shelley's play deftly communicates the moral intricacies of the subject, though the work ultimately condemns her actions.
The story of the Cenci family was also a source of fascination throughout the nineteenth-century. Beatrice's murder of her oppressive father, and the details of her grisly execution were the topics of a number of heated debates. Shelley's play deftly communicates the moral intricacies of the subject, though the work ultimately condemns her actions.
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