The Revival of the Olympian Gods in Renaissance Art

Abstract

One of the main characteristics of the Italian Renaissance was the fascination with the cultural aspects of Classical Antiquity.In this extensively researched monograph, Luba Freedman examines the representations of Greek and Roman gods in Renaissance Italy.She particularly focuses on the sixteenth-century, when fasci- nation with classical deities led to a phenomenon that had not occurred since pagan antiquity: the portrayal of the Olympians as autonomous figures in paint- ing and sculpture.While tending to ignore minor deities, sixteenth-century artists chose to focus instead on the elite family of Greek gods who lived on Mount Olympus.Yet even among these illustrious deities certain figures were more pop- ular than others; Hestia, the modest Goddess of the Hearth was seldom depicted,

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