Creating the "divine" artist : from Dante to Michelangelo
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Creating the "divine" artist : from Dante to Michelangelo
（Cultures, beliefs, and traditions, v. 19）
Brill, 2004
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Creating the "divine" artist
Creating the "divine" artist from Dante to Michelangelo
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Bibliography: p. [355]-374
Includes index
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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.
Table of Contents
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
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