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Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance

2006; Oxford University Press; Volume: 18; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/jhc/fhl024

1477-8564

J. Walter Graham,

Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

In 2004, the Botticelli show at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence included – among numerous reminders of the artist's rediscovery in the 1800s – the National Gallery of Scotland's The Virgin Adoring the Child, a work seen by Waagen in Lord Northwick's collection in 1854, and recently given back its nineteenth-century status as a ‘Botticelli’ after years in obscurity. At the Uffizi, a simultaneous exhibition about the Anglo-American fascination with Renaissance Florence, 1840–1920, displayed, appropriately enough, a majolica plate of 1883 decorated with the Flora figure from Botticelli's Primavera.1 Thus, the present book is part of a renewed interest internationally in the Renaissance as an essentially nineteenth-century concept rather than a fixed moment of the past. As Lene Østermark-Johansen notes in her Introduction, the volume sets out to map, not the emergence of a neatly packaged term or even period, but the very fluidity of such a construct...