Ronsard's Contentious Sisters: The Paragone Between Poetry and Painting in the Works of Pierre de Ronsard.(Review)

Renaissance Quarterly | June 22, 2000| | Copyright

Roberto Campo. Ronsard's Contentious Sisters: The Paragone Between Poetry and Painting in the Works of Pierre de Ronsard.

(North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 257.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1998. 277 pp. $28.50. ISBN: 0-8078-9261-0.

This nicely illustrated book constitutes the first full-length study of Ronsard's poems in terms of the Renaissance paragone or contest between the sister arts of painting and poetry. This debate, which focused on the relative values of the two arts, dates from antiquity and raged ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

State soils of the United States.
Magazine article from: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation ; ...shown in Table 2, have state soils selected by soil scientists within the state...common and scientific names of soils. Soil scientists use soil taxonomy...for good stewardship of the soils. The degradation of soil and water by erosion or by...
Positioning soil survey for the 21st century.
Magazine article from: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation ; ...written. It is that the soil survey will never be completed...time when knowledge of soils will be complete. Our...The number and type of soil survey customers has expanded...agronomists, needs for soils information. For example...to different degrees of soil erosion (D
Soil quality fundamentals
Magazine article from: BioCycle ; ...capacity of natural soils or soil substitutes to support...function or use of the soil. In these articles, soils are primarily considered...Pedology, the science of soil formation and classification, tells us that soils are dynamic natural...
Soil and Water Quality: an Agenda for Agriculture
Magazine article from: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation ; ...protecting water quality. In many ways, soil quality is one measure of ecosystem health. Conserving soil quality means protecting the full range of ecological services high-quality soils provide. Soil management can either improve or degrade...
Soil testing for phosphorus: comparing the Mehlich 3 and Colwell procedures for soils of south-western Australia.
Magazine article from: Australian Journal of Soil Research ; ...sodium bicarbonate soil test for E is used...current P status of soils when providing P...different elements in soils. The procedures...different reagents, soil:solution ratios...1). After the soils had been used to measure soil test P in the original...
Soil development on a l,500-year-old beach ridge plain, Sturgeon Bay, NW Lower Michigan.(Report)
Magazine article from: Michigan Academician ; ...relatively well-preserved soils are found, natural soil development remains inherently...by examining samples from soils with similar soil formation conditions, except...chronosequence studies of natural soil formation in sandy soils, often spanning several...
SOIL CHEMISTRY AND THE QUALITY OF HUMUS
Magazine article from: BioCycle ; ...the dynamic nature of soils. Soil chemistry is fundamentally...research laboratories, soils are very complex chemical systems. Soil water is more accurately...fundamental to the function of soils as plant growth media. SOIL SOLUTION Inorganic constituents...
Soil amendment user's guide.(FIELD SCIENCE)
Magazine article from: SportsTURF ; ...learn how to evaluate soil fairly effectively just...own senses. Remember, soils can change, so it is...years) re-evaluate your soil. Soil evaluation techniques...up about 2.5% of the soil mass in agricultural soils. You can estimate the...
Soil quality indices and their application in the hilly loess plateau region of China.
Magazine article from: Australian Journal of Soil Research ; ...spatial variance of soil quality. All of...differences between soils, complexity of environments within which soils exist, and the variety of soil and crop management...modified for different soils and used to enumerate dynamic soil quality ratings...
Soil organic carbon variability and sampling optimization in Montana dryland wheat fields.
Magazine article from: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation ; ...sequestration is to increase soil organic carbon in agricultural soils through the use...or in a swale, soils in these positions...have very different soil organic carbon levels...with respect to soil organic carbon...for this are: 1) Soils often exhibit substantial...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Ronsard's Contentious Sisters: The Paragone ..."