Green worlds in early modern Italy : art and the verdant earth / edited by Karen Hope Goodchild, April Oettinger and Leopoldine Prosperetti.
The green mantle of the earth! This metaphor conceives of the vegetation of the earth as a green cloth that drapes the barren earth. Long popular in patristic literature Il mantello verde della terra is a poetical image that ponders the providential greening of the earth on the third day of the Crea...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
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