Cultural mediators : artists and writers at the crossroads of tradition, innovation and reception in the Low Countries and Italy 1450-1650 / edited by Annette de Vries.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vries, Annette de, 1962-

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Groningen studies in cultural change ; v. 31.

Groningen studies in cultural change ; v. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society.

Arts and society.

Arts, Italian.

Art, Netherlandish--Italian influences.

Arts.

Relations.

Benelux countries--Relations--Italy--Congresses.

Benelux countries.

Italy--Relations--Benelux countries--Congresses.

Italy.

Arts--Benelux countries--Congresses.

Art, Netherlandish--Italian influences--Congresses.

Art, Netherlandish.

Arts, Italian--Netherlandish influences--Congresses.

Arts and society--Benelux countries--Congresses.

Arts and society--Italy--Congresses.

Literature and society--Benelux countries--Congresses.

Literature and society--Italy--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2008.

Summary:

The notion of cultural mediation is a promising albeit not yet methodologically clear-cut and well-probed instrument for studying artistic and literary phenomena in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period. This volume addresses the role of artists and writers as cultural mediators in a variety of cultural fields such as religion, politics, morality and artistic expression (art, literature and theatre). It fully acknowledges the diversity of roles that the term cultural mediator incorporates. The artist or writer may be a neutral transmitter, a dedicated instructor, a conscious advocate, an unconscious exponent or an autonomous inventor of whatever message is being transmitted by way of visual or verbal artefacts. In reality, these roles were often intertwined, but distinguishing them enables us to recognise the main variables that shaped the role of a cultural mediator: the intentionality of the artist or writer, the function of his or her work and its reception by the viewers or audience. The essays collected in this volume offer a stimulating, interdisciplinary exploration of the range, variety and impact of the artist or writer as a cultural mediator, while avoiding a deadlock between notions of art and literature as subsidiary versus self-contained fields of creative expression.

Contents:

Pieter Aertsen's Old Market Vendor: Imitatio Artis as Paradox / Reindert L. Falkenburg 1

Mediating the Bible: Three Approaches. The cases of Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459), Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489) and Sanctes Pagninus (1470-1536) / Arjo Vanderjagt 23

Ambassadors of an Intermediate Culture. Italian Actresses on the Early Modern Stage / Philiep G. Bossier 41

Painters in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy as Visual Mediators / Victor M. Schmidt 53

Pieter van Foreest. Propagating Academic Medical Knowledge and Professional Practitioning for the Sake of the Republic's Health / Catrien G. Santing 65

The Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Tazza by Andrea Solario (1507). The Transformation and Transition of the Johannesschüssel from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance / Barbara Baert 87

Propagating Venice's Finest Hour. Vicissitudes of Giuseppe Porta Salviati's Painting of Pope Alexander III and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in the Sala Regia of the Vatican Palace / Jan L. de Jong 109

Mediating Diligence. Bruegel's The Months: Between Pictorial Tradition and Early Modern Reception / Annette de Vries 127

The Louvain Painter Jan van Rillaer (c. 1500-1570). Mediator of an Avant-Garde Renaissance Style / Yvette Bruijnen 147

'Herewith the Poet Doth Reveal'. The Poetical Pageant of the Antwerp Landjuweel of 1561 as an Innovative Transmitter of the Concept of Harmony / Jeroen J. M. Vandommele 161.

Notes:

Papers presented at a workshop held in Groningen, Jan. 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-204) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789042920439

9042920432

OCLC:

313657753