| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 251 pages) : color illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Summary |
"Explores artistic depictions of the ostrich from ancient Egypt to the Renaissance works of Raphael. Traces the history of shifting interpretations given to the ostrich in scientific texts, literature, and religious writings"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Raphael's disputed legacy -- A brief history of the ostrich : antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The eagle and the ostrich : the court of Urbino -- Pope Leo X and Raphael's ostriches -- Raphael's heirs -- Farnese ostriches and Vasari's Raphael -- Fortune is an ostrich : discontent in the 1550s and 1560s -- Curiosity and the ostrich in the Counter-Reformation -- Taming the ostrich : Ripa and Aldrovandi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Raphael, 1483-1520 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Raphael, 1483-1520. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Ostriches in art -- History.
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Ostriches in art. |
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History. |
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Art, Renaissance.
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Art, Renaissance. |
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Painting, Renaissance.
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Painting, Renaissance. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: D'Elia, Una Roman, 1973- Raphael's ostrich. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015] 9780271066400 (DLC) 2015003564 (OCoLC)906294756 |
| ISBN |
9780271077499 (electronic book) |
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0271077492 (electronic book) |
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9780271077475 (electronic book) |
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0271077476 (electronic book) |
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9780271066400 |
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0271066407 |
| Music No. |
MWT11648577 |
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