Perfect Genre. Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy
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Al Core
aminta
Annunciation Scene
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art historical analysis
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Bruno's Candelaio
Bruno’s Candelaio
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De Pictura
Dosso Dossi
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figural
Figural Citation
Gerusalemme Liberata
Giangiorgio Trissino
Giorgio Vasari
Holbein's Painting
Holbein’s Painting
humanist aesthetics
intellectual historiography
intermediality
interplay of painting and drama
Italian theatre criticism
ludovico
Orti Oricellari
Pastoral Painting
Paul III
Perino Del Vaga
Pope Paul III
Quel Che
Raffaello Sanzio
rappresentazione
rappresentazioni
Sacer Ludis
sacra
Sacra Rappresentazione
sacre
Sacre Rappresentazioni
Santa Maria Del Popolo
Symbolic Trajectory
Tasso's Aminta
tassos
Tasso’s Aminta
visual culture studies
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409406839
- Weight: 690g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Proposing an original and important re-conceptualization of Italian Renaissance drama, Kristin Phillips-Court here explores how the intertextuality of major works of Italian dramatic literature is not only poetic but also figurative. She argues that not only did the painterly gaze, so prevalent in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century devotional art, portraiture, and visual allegory, inform humanistic theories, practices and themes, it also led prominent Italian intellectuals to write visually evocative works of dramatic literature whose topical plots and structures provide only a fraction of their cultural significance. Through a combination of interpretive literary criticism, art historical analysis and cultural and intellectual historiography, Phillips-Court offers detailed readings of individual plays juxtaposed with specific developments and achievements in the realm of painting. Revealing more than historical connections between artists and poets such as Tasso and Giorgione, Mantegna and Trissino, Michelangelo and Caro, or Bruno and Caravaggio, the author locates the history of Renaissance art and drama securely within the history of ideas. She provides us with a story about the emergence and eventual disintegration of Italian Renaissance drama as a rigorously philosophical and empirical form. Considering rhetorical, philosophical, ethical, religious, political-ideological, and aesthetic dimensions of each of the plays she treats, Kristin Phillips-Court draws our attention to the intermedial conversation between the theater and painting in a culture famously dominated by art. Her integrated analysis of visual and dramatic works brings to light how the lines and verses of the text reveal an ongoing dialogue with visual art that was far richer and more intellectually engaged than we might reconstruct from stage diagrams and painted backdrops.
Kristin Phillips-Court is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
