Search results for ""Author Maria Antonietta Terzoli""
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De Gruyter Tasso und die bildenden Künste: Dialoge, Spiegelungen, Transformationen
With "La Gerusalemme liberata", Torquato Tasso revived the ancient genre of epic poetry. Already during his lifetime, his work became subject to an intensive discourse on the images used – both the military events of the crusades, and the tragic love stories moved artists and the public. At the same time, "Discorsi dell’arte poetica" became the blueprint for the theory and practice of historic visual art. Around 1800, the focus finally moved to the personality of the poet as a model of the modern artist who suffers in and from the world. In a dialog between literary science and art history, new research is presented on the subject of Tasso and the pictures. The focus is on the ekphrastic tradition and important artistic interpretations of Tasso in pictures – like that of Nicolas Poussin.
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Taschen GmbH William Blake. Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’. The Complete Drawings
Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, representing, on a deeper level, the soul’s path towards salvation. In the last few years of his life, Romantic poet and artist William Blake (1757–1827) produced 102 illustrations for Dante’s masterwork, from pencil sketches to finished watercolors. Like Dante’s sweeping poem, Blake’s drawings range from scenes of infernal suffering to celestial light, from horrifying human disfigurement to the perfection of physical form. While faithful to the text, Blake also brought his own perspective to some of Dante’s central themes. Today, Blake’s illustrations, left in various stages of completion at the time of his death, are dispersed among seven different institutions. This TASCHEN edition brings these works together again, alongside key excerpts from Dante’s masterpiece. Two introductory essays consider Dante and Blake, as well as other major artists who have been inspired by The Divine Comedy, including Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Doré, and Auguste Rodin. With an intimate reading of Blake’s illustrations, and many close-ups to allow the most delicate of details to dazzle, this is a breathtaking encounter with two of the finest artistic talents in history, as well as with such universal themes as love, guilt, punishment, revenge, and redemption.
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De Gruyter Petrarca und die bildenden Künste: Dialoge, Spiegelungen, Transformationen
Petrarca hat sich intensiv mit den bildenden Künsten seiner Zeit auseinandergesetzt. Er besaß ein Madonnenbild Giottos und beauftragte Simone Martini mit dem einzigartigen Frontispiz seines Vergilcodex. Seine Werke sind Schlüsseltexte für die Entdeckung der Landschaft und die humanistische Villenkultur ebenso wie für das weibliche Porträt und die Triumphikonographie der Renaissance und des Barock. Der mit Petrarca verbundene Mythos des Dichterfürsten bietet bis in die Moderne hinein eine produktive Projektionsfläche für Literaten und Künstler gleichermaßen. Die Beiträge des Bandes eröffnen im Dialog zwischen Literaturwissenschaft und Kunstgeschichte neue Perspektiven auf zentrale Aspekte von Leben und Werk Petrarcas und seine Bedeutung als Ausstrahlungsphänomen der europäischen Kulturgeschichte.
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