Tintoretto, Aretino, and the speed of creation
2004; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 20; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/02666286.2004.10444017
ISSN1943-2178
Autores Tópico(s)Medieval and Classical Philosophy
ResumoAbstract Tintoretto, in his little-studied Creation of the Birds, Fish, and Animals (figure 1), portrayed God's creation as velocity. God flies across the canvas, animating the animals, who fly, swim, leap, and gallop in the same direction at the very moment of tlleir creation. In this work, Tintoretto also emphasizes his famously rapid brushwork, which picks out the multitudes of animals, God's beard, and the furls of his cloak with quick flicks of white. Tintoretto, like God, uses speed to animate his creation. Tintoretto's friend, the infamous satirist Pietro Aretino, in his prose elaboration of Genesis, published in 1538, also emphasized the speed of God's creation. In other passages he discussed the uses and limitations of speed in artistic and literary creations. These writings suggest that in this painting Tintoretto may have been laying claim to a sort of inspired, vivifying divine velocity.
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