Augustine and the Arts

FAIN: FB-38683-03

Meredith J. Gill
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN 46556-4635)

No project description available

Media Coverage

(Review)
Publication: The Times Literary Supplement
Date: 10/7/2005

(Review)
Publication: The Art Book
Date: 2/1/2006

(Review)
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly
Date: 6/1/2006

(Review)
Publication: Sixteenth Century Journal
Date: 1/1/2007

(Review)
Publication: The Heythrop Journal
Date: 12/1/2007

(Review)
Publication: Forum Italicum
Date: 1/1/2007

(Review)
Publication: Italian Quarterly
Date: 1/1/2007

Associated Products

Augustine in the Italian Renaissance: Art and Philosophy from Petrarch to Michelangelo (Book)
Title: Augustine in the Italian Renaissance: Art and Philosophy from Petrarch to Michelangelo
Abstract: Augustine, the late antique Church Father, fascinated writers and artists of the Renaissance. They perceived him to be a conduit of classical and Christian truths and an example of the life of the intellect reconciled to a life of faith. This book traces the reception of Augustine from the fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century and discusses the saint's influence on thinkers and humanists as well as his representation in the visual arts. Portrayed in several major fresco cycles, Augustine was also the subject of single portraitrs. In these, artists alluded to his aesthetic theory as articulated in his concept of divine illumination. The Sistine Chapel represents the fulfilment of Augustine's theological and philosophical legacy, one that began there in the fifteenth century and extended through the completion of Michelangelo's "Last Judgment."
Year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978052183214

Augustine Beyond the Book: Intermediality, Transmediality, and Reception (Book)
Title: Augustine Beyond the Book: Intermediality, Transmediality, and Reception
Editor: Karla Pollmann
Abstract: Augustine of Hippo (354-410) is arguably the most influential thinker and Latin author of the Early Christian period. His widespread legacy has been explored to date only in part, and largely with respect to his textual reception. This interdisciplinary volume attempts to redress this emphasis with a set of analyses of Augustine's impact in the visual arts, drama, devotional practices, music, the science-faith debate and psychotherapy. The result is a far more differentiated and dynamic picture of the mechanisms by which the legacy of an historical figure may be measured, allowing for the sometimes supra-rational and imaginative dimensions of transmission. These studies contribute to a picture of the universal and ubiquitous presence of Augustine in intellectual, spiritual and artistic terms.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Brill
Type: Edited Volume

"Speaking Books, Moving Images" (Book Section)
Title: "Speaking Books, Moving Images"
Author: Meredith J. Gill
Editor: John Jeffries Martin
Abstract: An essay on the reception and depiction of Augustine in the Renaissance, and on the notion of conversion.
Year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Book Title: The Renaissance World

After Augustine: The Oxford Guide to the Reception of Augustine (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: After Augustine: The Oxford Guide to the Reception of Augustine
Author: Meredith J. Gill
Abstract: Five entries: “Leonardo Bruni,” “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,” “Coluccio Salutati,” “Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder,” and “Visual Arts, 1200-1600.”
Year: 2010
Primary URL: http:// www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/after-augustine/

"Augustine and the Italian Renaissance" (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: "Augustine and the Italian Renaissance"
Abstract: Public lecture
Author: Meredith J. Gill
Date: 11/11/2010
Location: Villanova University

"Augustine and His Heaven" (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: "Augustine and His Heaven"
Abstract: Public lecture
Author: Meredith J. Gill
Date: 04/17/2008
Location: John Carroll University, Cleveland

"Augustine and Renaissance Angels" (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: "Augustine and Renaissance Angels"
Abstract: Public lecture
Author: Meredith J. Gill
Date: 04/16/2008
Location: Indiana University, Bloomington

"Curiosity and Pleasure: Renaissance Augustine" (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: "Curiosity and Pleasure: Renaissance Augustine"
Author: Meredith J. Gill
Abstract: Conference presentation.
Date: 03/30/2007
Conference Name: "The Augustine's 'Confessions' Conference," University of Toronto

---