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 Bernardino of Siena organising the vanities bonfire, Perugia, from the Oratorio di San Bernardino, by Agostino di Duccio, built between 1457 and 1461.
Bonfire of the Vanities (Italian: Falò delle vanità) refers to the burning of objects that are deemed to be occasions of sin. The most infamous one took place on 7 February 1497, when supporters of the Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly burned thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy, on the Mardi Gras festival.[1] Such bonfires were not invented by Savonarola, however. They were a common accompaniment to the outdoor sermons of San Bernardino di Siena in the first half of the century.
The focus of this destruction was nominally on objects that might tempt one to sin, including vanity items such as mirrors, cosmetics, fine dresses, playing cards, and even musical instruments. Other targets included books that were deemed to be immoral, such as works by Boccaccio, and manuscripts of secular songs, as well as artworks, including paintings and sculpture.


Contents
  [hide] 1 Botticelli
2 In fiction
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Botticelli[edit]
Although it is widely reported that the Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli burned several of his paintings based on classical mythology in the great Florentine bonfire of 1492, the historical record on this is not clear. According to the art historian Giorgio Vasari, Botticelli was a partisan of Savonarola: "he was so ardent a partisan that he was thereby induced to desert his painting, and, having no income to live on, fell into very great distress". Writing several centuries later, Orestes Brownson, an apologist for Savonarola, mentions artwork only by Fra Bartolomeo, Lorenzo di Credi, and "many other painters", along with "several antique statues".[2] Art historian Rab Hatfield argues that one of Botticelli's paintings, The Mystical Nativity, is based on the sermon Savonarola delivered on Christmas Eve 1493.[3]
In fiction[edit]
The event has been represented or mentioned in varying degrees of detail in a number of works of historical fiction, including George Eliot's Romola (1863), E. R. Eddison's A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941), Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's The Palace (1978), Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient - part two 1992, Timothy Findley's Pilgrim (1999), Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason's Rule of Four (2004), and the Showtime series The Borgias. As a metaphor, Tom Wolfe used the event and ritual as the title for his 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities and its film adaptation. Margaret Atwood's works allude to the Bonfire, as in her dystopian novels The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003).
It is also depicted in the video game Assassin's Creed II.
See also[edit]
Book burning
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Covenantseminary.edu
2.Jump up ^ Orestes Brownson, "Savonarola: his Contest with Paganism," Brownson's Quarterly Review, April, 1851; available at Orestes Brownson society
3.Jump up ^ Rab Hatfield, "Botticelli's Mystic Nativity, Savonarola and the Millennium", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 58, (1995), pp. 88-114
External links[edit]
Echoes of Botticelli in Early Modern Sources Explores primary sources related to Botticelli and Savonarola
 

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Bonfire of the Vanities

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This article is about the historical event. For the novel, see The Bonfire of the Vanities. For the 1990 film, see The Bonfire of the Vanities (film).

 

 Bernardino of Siena organising the vanities bonfire, Perugia, from the Oratorio di San Bernardino, by Agostino di Duccio, built between 1457 and 1461.
Bonfire of the Vanities (Italian: Falò delle vanità) refers to the burning of objects that are deemed to be occasions of sin. The most infamous one took place on 7 February 1497, when supporters of the Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly burned thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy, on the Mardi Gras festival.[1] Such bonfires were not invented by Savonarola, however. They were a common accompaniment to the outdoor sermons of San Bernardino di Siena in the first half of the century.
The focus of this destruction was nominally on objects that might tempt one to sin, including vanity items such as mirrors, cosmetics, fine dresses, playing cards, and even musical instruments. Other targets included books that were deemed to be immoral, such as works by Boccaccio, and manuscripts of secular songs, as well as artworks, including paintings and sculpture.


Contents
  [hide] 1 Botticelli
2 In fiction
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Botticelli[edit]
Although it is widely reported that the Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli burned several of his paintings based on classical mythology in the great Florentine bonfire of 1492, the historical record on this is not clear. According to the art historian Giorgio Vasari, Botticelli was a partisan of Savonarola: "he was so ardent a partisan that he was thereby induced to desert his painting, and, having no income to live on, fell into very great distress". Writing several centuries later, Orestes Brownson, an apologist for Savonarola, mentions artwork only by Fra Bartolomeo, Lorenzo di Credi, and "many other painters", along with "several antique statues".[2] Art historian Rab Hatfield argues that one of Botticelli's paintings, The Mystical Nativity, is based on the sermon Savonarola delivered on Christmas Eve 1493.[3]
In fiction[edit]
The event has been represented or mentioned in varying degrees of detail in a number of works of historical fiction, including George Eliot's Romola (1863), E. R. Eddison's A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941), Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's The Palace (1978), Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient - part two 1992, Timothy Findley's Pilgrim (1999), Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason's Rule of Four (2004), and the Showtime series The Borgias. As a metaphor, Tom Wolfe used the event and ritual as the title for his 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities and its film adaptation. Margaret Atwood's works allude to the Bonfire, as in her dystopian novels The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003).
It is also depicted in the video game Assassin's Creed II.
See also[edit]
Book burning
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Covenantseminary.edu
2.Jump up ^ Orestes Brownson, "Savonarola: his Contest with Paganism," Brownson's Quarterly Review, April, 1851; available at Orestes Brownson society
3.Jump up ^ Rab Hatfield, "Botticelli's Mystic Nativity, Savonarola and the Millennium", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 58, (1995), pp. 88-114
External links[edit]
Echoes of Botticelli in Early Modern Sources Explores primary sources related to Botticelli and Savonarola
 

Categories: 1497 in Europe
15th-century Christianity
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Italian Renaissance
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Girolamo Savonarola
reform with processions, bonfires of the vanities , and pious theatricals. ... The fourth segment of Walerian Borowczyk 's 1974 anthology film ...
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Wall Street
The 1987 Oliver Stone film Wall Street created the iconic figure ... Many events of Tom Wolfe 's Bonfire of the Vanities center on Wall ...
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Kirsten Dunst (section Film)
1990 The | Bonfire of the Vanities | The Bonfire of the Vanities (film) | Campbell McCoy | 1991 | High Strung | Young Girl | 1994 Greedy ...
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Assassin's Creed II (section Bonfire of the Vanities)
Bonfire of the Vanities ... On October 20, 2009, Ubisoft announced a series of short films, to be broadcast via YouTube , that would provide ...
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F. Murray Abraham (section Film)
in films such as The Name of the Rose (1986), Finding Forrester ... He also had a significant role in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), ...
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Beth Broderick (section Film)
Love | Putnam | 1990 The | Bonfire of the Vanities | The Bonfire of the Vanities (film) | Caroline Heftshank | 1991 Thousand Pieces of Gold ...
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Kim Cattrall
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Rita Wilson
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Mary Harron (section Film detail)
known for her films I Shot Andy Warhol , American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page ... employer in Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities . ...
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Debbie Lee Carrington
She has appeared in many films and TV shows, including In Living ... 1990 The Bonfire of the Vanities | 1990 WIOU | Carla Sapper | Episode ...
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Movie Love
Movie Love (1991) is the tenth and last collection of film reviews by the critic ... Movies reviewed : The Bonfire of the Vanities ...
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Henry Kravis
story being dramatized in the book and film, Barbarians at the Gate . ... Fourcade was parodied in the 1990 movie The Bonfire of the Vanities ...
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American film adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe , originally ...
17 KB (2,631 words) - 20:08, 14 November 2013

Brian De Palma (redirect from The Key Man (film))
Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and ... The Bonfire of the Vanities), but look at the range here ...
30 KB (4,172 words) - 21:19, 28 October 2013

The Bonfire of the Vanities
the novel | the 1990 film | The Bonfire of the Vanities (film) | the ... The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe . ...
14 KB (2,031 words) - 07:08, 27 July 2013

Bonfire of the Vanities
Bonfire of the Vanities (Falò delle vanità) refers to the burning of objects that ... Bonfire of the Vanities and its film adaptation . ...
4 KB (594 words) - 22:13, 19 October 2013

Tom Hanks
as the animated films The Polar Express and the Toy Story franchise. ... (1990), and The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), as a greedy Wall ...
45 KB (6,620 words) - 16:34, 1 November 2013

Melanie Griffith
She worked continuously in mainstream films throughout the 1990s, starring in features such as The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), A ...
21 KB (2,627 words) - 05:58, 12 November 2013

Bruce Willis (redirect from Expiration (2014 film))
slump starring in flops such as The Bonfire of the Vanities , Striking Distance , and a film he co-wrote titled Hudson Hawk , among others. ...
53 KB (7,557 words) - 17:21, 11 November 2013

Girolamo Savonarola
reform with processions, bonfires of the vanities , and pious theatricals. ... The fourth segment of Walerian Borowczyk 's 1974 anthology film ...
40 KB (6,101 words) - 21:31, 14 November 2013

Wall Street
The 1987 Oliver Stone film Wall Street created the iconic figure ... Many events of Tom Wolfe 's Bonfire of the Vanities center on Wall ...
93 KB (13,487 words) - 23:02, 14 November 2013

Kirsten Dunst (section Film)
1990 The | Bonfire of the Vanities | The Bonfire of the Vanities (film) | Campbell McCoy | 1991 | High Strung | Young Girl | 1994 Greedy ...
69 KB (9,203 words) - 21:32, 15 November 2013

Assassin's Creed II (section Bonfire of the Vanities)
Bonfire of the Vanities ... On October 20, 2009, Ubisoft announced a series of short films, to be broadcast via YouTube , that would provide ...
67 KB (9,837 words) - 11:21, 15 November 2013

F. Murray Abraham (section Film)
in films such as The Name of the Rose (1986), Finding Forrester ... He also had a significant role in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), ...
23 KB (2,904 words) - 20:11, 14 November 2013

Beth Broderick (section Film)
Love | Putnam | 1990 The | Bonfire of the Vanities | The Bonfire of the Vanities (film) | Caroline Heftshank | 1991 Thousand Pieces of Gold ...
12 KB (1,519 words) - 17:22, 5 November 2013

Kim Cattrall
Return of the Musketeers | Justine de Winter | 1990 | Honeymoon Academy | Chris | 1990 The | Bonfire of the Vanities | dab film | Judy McCoy | | ...
27 KB (3,550 words) - 21:24, 13 November 2013

Rita Wilson
Teen Witch , The Bonfire of the Vanities , Barbarians at the Gate , ... The | Bonfire of the Vanities | dab film | P.R. Woman | 1993 | Sleepless ...
12 KB (1,433 words) - 04:54, 15 September 2013

Mary Harron (section Film detail)
known for her films I Shot Andy Warhol , American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page ... employer in Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities . ...
15 KB (2,207 words) - 00:44, 14 October 2013

Debbie Lee Carrington
She has appeared in many films and TV shows, including In Living ... 1990 The Bonfire of the Vanities | 1990 WIOU | Carla Sapper | Episode ...
6 KB (579 words) - 01:37, 7 October 2013

Movie Love
Movie Love (1991) is the tenth and last collection of film reviews by the critic ... Movies reviewed : The Bonfire of the Vanities ...
6 KB (618 words) - 06:59, 7 October 2013

Eytan Mirsky
assistant sound editor on the films What's Eating Gilbert Grape , Carlito's Way and Bonfire of the Vanities and as a sound effects editor ...
3 KB (418 words) - 04:38, 2 May 2013

Henry Kravis
story being dramatized in the book and film, Barbarians at the Gate . ... Fourcade was parodied in the 1990 movie The Bonfire of the Vanities ...
18 KB (2,578 words) - 08:29, 25 October 2013

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