Parution : Timothy Verdon, Giovanni Serafini (eds), “Renaissance as Resurrection – Alberti’s Holy Sepulchre in the Context of Quattrocento Florence”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025
The Italian Renaissance has been studied above all as a cultural phenomenon related to the 15th-century rediscovery of ancient philosophy, literature, and art. The present volume significantly recalibrates that view, looking at the humanist concept of ‘rebirth’ in relation to the Christian belief in resurrection. Many of the articles deal specifically with the most explicit expression of this ideal equation, Leon Battista Alberti’s evocation of Christ’s Sepulchre in the Florentine church of San Pancrazio, a...



