Ekphrasis and Imagination: Some Observations on Pietro Aretino's Art Criticism
1986; College Art Association; Volume: 68; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043079.1986.10788333
ISSN1559-6478
Autores Tópico(s)Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
ResumoIn this study the author discusses various aspects of Pietro Aretino's art criticism, especially his reaction to Titian's paintings. For Aretino, as for other Renaissance writers on art, criticism was understood as a response to a particular image. The work's powerful illusion of nature engaged the critic's imaginatione in such a way that he mistook the illusion for reality itself and it so stimulated his fantasia that he injected meaning into the subject and form of the painted image. Aretino's ekphrastic criticism was strongly influenced by Petrarchan poems on portraits and served as a model for subsequent writers on Titian's art into the nineteenth century.
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