Raphael's poetics : art and poetry in High Renaissance Rome / David Rijser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rijser, David, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Raphael, 1483-1520--Criticism and interpretation.

Raphael.

Raphael, 1483-1520.

Art and literature--Italy--Rome.

Art and literature.

Art, Renaissance--Italy--Rome.

Art, Renaissance.

Criticism and interpretation.

Italy--Rome.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 475 pages., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Raphael's Poetics" makes the connection between the world famous and the unknown: it reconstructs the visual grammar that underlies the famous works of Raphael and which derives from the classical and contemporary Latin poetry that was so omnipresent in his surroundings but is now largely forgotten. By focusing on principles that from the basis of poetry Rijser explains the context in which Raphael's works were functioning, and arrives at an interpretation that they may have had for their intended audience. Highly innovative, thanks to the emphasis on a literary standpoint while looking at visual objects, Rijsers research results in a truly interdisciplinary methodology.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Nature's Anxiety 1

Introduction: Dorothea's Aporia 1

1.2 Gossiping Stones 8

1.3 Rome in Mourning 17

1.4 The Artist as Healer 29

1.5 Nature's Nurse 45

1.6 The Pleasures of Archaeology 56

1.7 Art and the Man 68

1.8 Back to the Future 86

Chapter 2 Rule without End 91

2.1 Introduction: An Actor Becomes Producer 91

2.2 Julius' Dreams of the World-game 94

2.3 A Nightmare Becomes a Vision: Valla and the Triumph of Style 99

2.4 Ancient Precedents 115

2.5 The Relevance of Rhetoric 120

2.6 Twin Sisters 130

2.7 Apollo Speaking 155

Chapter 3 Let No One without Poem Enter 177

3.1 Introduction: A Father of Charms 177

3.2 Deipnosophistae 181

3.3 Goritz the Gardener 189

3.4 Prophecies Come True 195

3.5 The Golden Age 207

3.6 Talking Heads 221

3.7 What's in a Name? 230

3.8 Endgame 235

Interlude: Silenus' Song 243

Distinctions in Ovid 243

The Pleasures of Myth 245

Text and Context 246

Unity and Ambiguity 250

Style and Content 255

Antique Interlace: The Eclogues 258

Chapter 4 Airy Nothing Gets a Local Habitation and a Name 271

4.1 Introduction: On a Clear Morning 271

4.2 Tamisius and the Fish-trail 273

4.3 Value for Money - and Anecdote 277

4.4 In Search of a Decent Abode 286

4.5 The Roman Trail 296

4.6 Statius' Poetics of Ekphrasis 309

4.7 Paradise Regained 324

4.8 Poetry and Illusion 330

4.9 Decoration: The Stars and Life 34?

4.10 The Lunettes 349

4.11 Entering the Canon 376

4.12 Apples of the Patron's Eye 381

4.13 Polyphemus' Song 390

4.14 Paragone at the Gallery 401

4.15 Other Voices, Other Rooms 417.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Amsterdam, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [425]-[448]) and indexes.

ISBN:

9789089643421

9089643427

OCLC:

754711856