Dancing Italian Culture: Venezia et al.

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 337-343
Author(s):  
Clara Sacchetti ◽  
Batia Stolar
Keyword(s):  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Thunder Bay ◽  
Italian Culture

How does Le Stelle, an ethnic dance group in the multicultural city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, represent Italian culture? Our article broaches this question by analyzing Le Stelle's 2012 “Carnivale of Venezia” dance. While the number is meant to evoke the Italian Renaissance, it creatively uses kinetic movements from ballet, Irish step dancing, and the Italian tarantella. It is staged to a 1950s Mantovani song mixed with music from Assassin's Creed II; and it utilizes Italian peasant costuming and Venetian masks. Our paper examines Le Stelle's use of these hybridities in staging Italian culture.

scholarly journals Le influenze italiane in Karol Szymanowski

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
Leonardo Masi
Keyword(s):  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Italian Culture ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

Like many other artists, Szymanowski was hugely attracted to Italy. In this article, I will briefly expose, firstly, the “Italian” tracks that can be found in the Polish composer’s music, and, secondly, the declarations on Italy in Szymanowski’s writings, in particular on his art and music, trying to relate these elements between them to see what image of Italian culture emerges. I will show how Szymanowski’s cultural environment remains German-based nevertheless looking for the lost unity between man, art and nature in the heritage of the Italian Renaissance.

The idea of renewal in Girolamo Aleander’s conciliar thought

1977 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
W. B. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Catholic Reformation ◽  
Single Generation ◽  
Italian Culture ◽  
The Church

The climax of the Italian renaissance in the early sixteenth century merges almost imperceptibly and rather surprisingly with the beginnings of the catholic reformation. Within a single generation, it seems, religious and moral interests came to rival, or even to supplant, that interest in pagan antiquity which had long been the inspiration of Italian culture. The stages by which this transformation occurred have not been clearly defined, but the process can be seen at work in the case of one prominent humanist who decided to devote his career to the defence and then to the renewal of the church of Rome.

The Grace of the Italian Renaissance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ita Mac Carthy
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Vittoria Colonna ◽  
The World ◽  
Changing World

‘Grace’ emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. This book explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic concerns of an age concerned with the reactivation of ancient ideas in a changing world. The book reassesses artists such as Francesco del Cossa, Raphael, and Michelangelo and explores anew writers like Castiglione, Ariosto, Tullia d'Aragona, and Vittoria Colonna. It shows how these artists and writers put grace at the heart of their work. The book argues that grace came to be as contested as it was prized across a range of Renaissance Italian contexts. It characterised emerging styles in literature and the visual arts, shaped ideas about how best to behave at court and sparked controversy about social harmony and human salvation. For all these reasons, grace abounded in the Italian Renaissance, yet it remained hard to define. The book explores what grace meant to theologians, artists, writers, and philosophers, showing how it influenced their thinking about themselves, each other and the world. It portrays grace not as a stable formula of expression but as a web of interventions in culture and society.

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