In Our Time

PAGANISM IN THE RENAISSANCE
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Renaissance Paganism

Further Reading

Primary Sources
Ovid; The Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) Denis Feeney (Introduction), David Raeburn (Translator)
Ovid; The Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) E.J. Kenney (Editor), A.D. Melville (Translator)

Secondary Reading

Evelyn Waugh - Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500 (1997, originally titled Art and Society in Italy)
Evelyn Waugh - Shopping in the Renaissance Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1300-1530 (2005)
Edger Wind - Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance (1958)
Jean Seznec – Survival of the Pagan gods (1953)
Erwin Panofsky – Studies in iconology (1939)
Fritz Saxl – A heritage of Images (1957)
The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art - Malcolm Bull (2005)

Reference

Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art - ed. James Hall
Titian: Catalogue of the National Gallery Exhibition 19 Feb-18 May 2003 - Charles Hope et al (National Gallery / Yale Univ Press 2004)

Links to paintings referred to in the programme.

Botticelli - Birth of Venus

Botticelli - Primavera

Titian - Sacred and the Profane

Titian - Danae and the Shower of Gold

Micelangelo's Adam from the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.