Reviews for Paradiso

The average rating for Paradiso based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-02-18 00:00:00 Sean Hare Art here means all the media that usually don't get a look-in: gold and silver work, maiolica and glass, cassone and other painted objects (rather than paintings). The authors (Syson and Dora Thornton) go through the ideas that went into their production, the way they were received by patrons and clients, who often saw them as more important than paintings and sculptures; a neat inversion of today's attitudes.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-01-26 00:00:00 Olivia Martin My own reading notes: after returning from Rome (oct 1528), Clement wore a beard (Ha una barba longa canuda), a traditional sign of grief, penitential beard. Quattrocento was a beardless century, the next one encouraged beardness. In Greek culture the beard is a sign of a hermit, eremite, loner (barbatus). In western art, the beard signifies an easterner. In 1528 Hadrian VI. bans priest from having beards (they resembled soldiers too much). That's why in 1528 Clement's (colla barba longa) penitential beard seemed odd, but it wasn't a surprising gesture on its own. Wearing a beard is a sign of grief.