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Rethinking the High Renaissance : The Culture of the Visual Arts in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome

Burke conceived and edited this volume, the first to focus on the High Renaissance as a historiographical issue. Engaging theoretical debate about the meanings and implications of the term, the volume suggests new interpretations of the visual arts in early sixteenth-century Rome - a period that has been central to artistic development. Burke’s introductory essay constitutes the first in-depth discussion of the historiographical roots of the High Renaissance and its historical context. Burke suggests we read the High Renaissance as a stylistic phenomenon, based on a particular artistic/literary attitude to imitation and assimilation of sources, rather than a ‘period’.