Giancarlo Maiorino

Adam, "New Born and Perfect"

The Renaissance Promise of Eternity

Indiana University Press 1987

Stron XI+157, format: 16x24 cm

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CONTENTS



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / xi


I
The Architecture of the Ego

INTRODUCTION: Within Eternity's Reach / 3
1 Michelangelo's Creation of Adam and the Analogy of Perfection / 10
2 The Geometry of Perfection: L.B. Alberti and the Treatise as a Symbolic Form / 15



II
Metahistorical Forms of the Mediterranean Experience
3 In Adam's Likeness: Creation as a Constant Sacrament of Praise / 39
4 Aemulatio's Last Beginning: David and the Epiphany of Culture / 62


III
The Promise of Eternity
5 Rebirth as Synthesis in the The Courtier and The School of Athens I 89
6 Homo Artifex: The Analogue of Creativity / 107

TV
A Modern Epilogue
7 The Legend of Geometry Fulfilled: Piero della Francesca and Piet Mondrian /


NOTES / 135
INDEX OF NAMES / 151