The Faces of Bacchus and Apollon in Italian Renaissance Art. [From: Explorations in Renaissance Culture, Vol. 22, 1996].

Language: English

Published by Leiden: Brill, 1996

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pp. 83-102, 8 fig. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Author's name underlined, otherwise very good and clean. - From the text: The Italian Renaissance witnessed a revival of autonomous representations of pagan deities in large-scale statues and paintings. For the first time since the end of the classical era, artists depicted life-sized figures of the pagan gods phenomenon is hard to overestimate when one considers the fact that the earliest Renaissance depictions of Greco-Roman deities appeared several decades before systematic searches for ancient works of art were initiated and before most artists were expected to begin their apprenticeship by imitating works of classical antiquity. In fact, the rekindled interest in representations of mythological deities, seen independently of mythic fables, heralded the beginning of a new era in art, which Giorgio Vasari called the terza età. Between the years 1498 and 1511, Michelangelo, Jacopo Sansovino, and Raphael each shaped allantica an image of Bacchus or Apollo. Though the individual works have been carefully studied, they have never been considered collectively. Seen as a group, the Renaissance depictions of Greco-Roman deities appear elusively classical. Closer scrutiny, however, reveals that they have an important feature in common, a feature that is strikingly novel. This feature is the vivid facial expression; it constitutes a sign of modernity in the Renaissance depictions of Greco-Roman deities. The very idea of these deities, especially when disconnected from other figures, bearing highly expressive faces is alien to the classical spirit. The facial expressions of the newly fashioned deities evince a non-classical source of inspiration. Indeed, they seem to be inspired by certain Christian protagonists. An explanation of this specific non-classical feature in the Renaissance representations of Bacchus and of Apollo forms the subject of the present paper. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. …

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Title
The Faces of Bacchus and Apollon in Italian Renaissance Art. [From: Explorations in Renaissance Culture, Vol. 22, 1996].
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Freedman, Luba:
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Leiden: Brill
Publication year
1996
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Gut
Binding
Reprint, stapled.
Language
English
Item weight
550 grams
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