FAH337H1 Lecture Notes - Andrea Del Castagno, Domenico Veneziano, Anthropomorphism
Document Summary
Incrusted with narrative relief panels or statues: imporatance of good judgment, moralizing meaning, warning / causion. Recreation of a lost picture from antiquity: created by the ancient greek painter, who was a victim of slander, calumny (slander) Known and rediscovered in renaissance through verbal description. Read the paitning from right to left. Leading by the hand by an attractive woman (in blue and white) (slander: slander drags the victim of slander by the ear, deceit and conspiracy. Seductive power of images and words: ornamentation and visual beauty of images. Either he had someone in the circles of the medicis to recount the story to him. Made it and gave it as a gift ? artistic challenge to recreate a lost painting or had personal meaning. Segni family: intellectual elite in the city of florence, interested in the image and history of antiquity. Other artist had interest in the painting as well: mantegna"s calumny of apelles:
