Leonard Barkan

Biographic Data

ID378140
NAMELeonard Barkan
GIVEN NAMESLeonard
FAMILY NAMEBarkan
SIGNATUREBARKAN L
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Titian the Poet

    Leonard BarkanARTICLEI Tatti Studies2023References: 3

  • The Forms of Renaissance Thought

    Open AccessLeonard Barkan, Bradin Cormack et al.BOOKForms of Renaissance Thought2009

    This book addresses works of the European Renaissance as they relate both to the world of their origins and to a modern culture that turns to the early moderns for methodological provocation and renew

  • Praxiteles’ Aphrodite and the Love of Art

    Open AccessLeonard BarkanCHAPTERForms of Renaissance Thought2009

    “A fifteenth-century painting is the deposit of a social relationship”: so begins an epoch-making book by Michael Baxandall.1 In other words, the work of art is to be understood as the consequence, the remains, the residue from a set of practices within society, especially the power exercised by patrons, institutions, and finances. It is a brilliant, but disturbing, metaphor that seems to diminish agency and turn art objects into pieces of automa…

  • Unearthing the Past

    Leonard Barkan, Alexander NagelARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2001

    In this rich and engaging book, Leonard Barkan tells the full cultural story of the emergence into daylight of the artworks of antiquity that had lain beneath Roman ground for more than a thousand years. As discovery and rebirth became literal daily narratives in the fifteenth century, Barkan shows, Renaissance conceptions of art, art history, aesthetics, and historiography were transformed

  • Unearthing the Past

    Leonard BarkanBOOKUnearthing the past1999

    "Employing a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, from Warburg to Foucault, from documentary history to cultural studies, the author probes the impact of archaeological finds on renaissance consciousnesses. He takes us on an extraordinary intellectual tour that encompasses the rebirth of art history as rediscovered objects confirmed or refuted the written records of antiquity. The result was the reconstruction of history as discursive systems…

  • The Classical Undead

    Open AccessLeonard BarkanARTICLERes: Anthropology and Aesthetics1998

  • Making Pictures Speak

    Open AccessLeonard BarkanARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1995Cited by: 3References: 23

    Some Often Quoted Lines from Sidney's Apology for Poetry can stand both as a piece of literary history in themselves and as a methodological guide for the study of that history: “Poesy therefore is an art of imitation: for so Aristotle termeth it in the word mimesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth—to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture.“1 It is one of the most famous of all definitions of poetry, and like m…

  • The Beholder's Tale

    Leonard BarkanARTICLERepresentations1993Cited by: 5References: 2

    Research Article| October 01 1993 The Beholder's Tale: Ancient Sculpture, Renaissance Narratives Leonard Barkan Leonard Barkan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1993) 44: 133–166. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928642 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citat…

  • Transuming Passion

    Leonard BarkanBOOKTransuming Passion1991

  • The Gods Made Flesh

    Ronnie H Terpening, Leonard BarkanARTICLEItalica1989

  • The Gods Made Flesh

    Alvin P Dobsevage, Leonard BarkanARTICLEThe Classical World1989

  • Renaissance Drama, New Series X

    Susan Zimmerman, Leonard Barkan et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1982

  • "Living Sculptures"

    Leonard BarkanARTICLEELH1981

  • Diana and Actaeon

    Open AccessLeonard BarkanARTICLEEnglish Literary Renaissance1980

  • Nature's Work of Art

    S K Heninger, Leonard BarkanARTICLEThe Modern Language Review1977

    A fundamental Renaissance concept was that man is a miniature cosmos, a microcosm, and that the world is a body, a macrocosm.It is Dr. Barkan's purpose to trace through various Renaissance authors this cosmology of the body image (a term not used in the medical sense) in particular, and also the analogy between the human body and the commonwealth.Such writers used imaginative thought in an attempt to bridge the gulf between man and his surroundin…

  • The Gods Made Flesh

    Leonard Barkan, Elizabeth D Harvey et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation1969

    Although this study takes the idea of corporeal transfomiation as its principal subject, Barkan's investigation is focused on the work that stands "as the clear point of entrance"(l) into the topic, Ovid's Metamorphoses.He offers an illumi- nating reading of this paradigmatic text and then proceeds to explore the way itas a metonym for classical culture -was received, imitated, and transformed by theologians, philosophers, poets, and artists in t…