Creating the Divine Artist: From Dante to Michelangelo

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13709-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 975 g

Reihe: Cultures, Beliefs and Traditio

Turning a skeptical eye on the idea that Renaissance artists were widely believed to be as utterly admirable as Vasari claimed, this book re-opens the question of why artists were praised and by whom, and specifically why the language of divinity was invoked, a practice the ancients did not license. The epithet ''divino'' is examined in the context of claims to liberal arts status and to analogy with poets, musicians, and other ''uomini famossi.'' The reputations of Michelangelo and Brunelleschi are compared not only with each other but with those of Dante and Ariosto, of Aretino and of the ubiquitous beloved of the sonnet tradition. Nineteenth-century reformulations of the idea of Renaissance artistic divinity are treated in the epilogue, and twentieth-century treatments of the idea of artistic "ingegno" in an appendix.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emison, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

Introduction

The Sponge of Protogenes
Not Quite the Liberal Artist
The Divine Poet, Twinned
Idioti or Angels
Listening for the Music of the Spheres
The Artist as Huomo Famosissimo

Epilogue: The Romantic Deluge

Appendix: The Historiography of Ingegno
Appendix: Fornari’s Gloss on Ariosto’s Canto XXXIII

Illustrations

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia Emison, Ph.D. (1985) in the History of Art, Columbia University, is Professor at the University of New Hampshire. She specializes in the history of Italian Renaissance prints and is the author of Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art (Garland, 1997).