| Creating the Divine Artist: From Dante to Michelangelo Contributor(s): Emison, Patricia (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004137092 ISBN-13: 9789004137097 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: 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 andto analogy with poets, musicians, and other ''uomini famossi.''The reputations of Michelangelo andBrunelleschi 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 ofRenaissance artistic divinity are treated in the epilogue, and twentieth-century treatments of the idea of artistic "ingegno" in an appendix. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Renaissance - Art | Criticism & Theory |
| Dewey: 700.902 |
| LCCN: 2004043500 |
| Series: Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.4" W x 9.6" (2.15 lbs) 454 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
