Contrapposto: Style and Meaning in Renaissance Art
1977; College Art Association; Volume: 59; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043079.1977.10787440
ISSN1559-6478
Autores Tópico(s)Visual Culture and Art Theory
ResumoIt was thought for a long time that the Torso Belvedere was discovered in the Campo dei Fiori during the years of the reign of Julius II. In 1899, however, Lanciani argued that it was not the Torso Belvedere that had been found then but rather most probably the sadly mutilated torso of a Discobolos, now almost completely disguised in its restoration as a gladiator in the Capitoline Museum.2 A drawing of the torso in the Library of Christ Church College, Oxford (Fig. 1), published by Lanciani, is dated by inscription to 1513, the year of Julius II's death; and the same inscription tells us that the torso was either drawn in or excavated near the house of Giovanni Ciampolini, which was in the Campo dei Fiori.3 Ciampolini's was one of the earliest collections of antiquities and his torso of the Discobolos must have been held in some regard: after his death in 1518 and that of his heir Michele in 1519, the collection was bought at a high price by Giulio Romano and Penni in 1520.4 Thus a torso of the Discobolos, although it may never have been identified as such, or if it was identified, still left much to the imagination, surfaced at an opportune moment in the development of the Roman High Renaissance style, and took its place, immediately following the death of Raphael, in the collection of one of the foremost practitioners of the new maniera.
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