Poussin and the Poetics of Painting: Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso - Rilegato

Unglaub, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 0521833671 ISBN 13: 9780521833677

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Riassunto

This examines how Poussin cultivated a poetics of painting from the literary culture of his own time, and especially through his response to the work of Torquato Tasso. Tasso's poetic discourses were the most important source for Poussin's theory of painting. The poet's ideas on artistic imitation, novelty, and plot structure and unity, which are exemplified in his epic La Gerusalemme liberata, proved to be fundamental to the artist's conception of narrative painting, culminating in the Israelites Gathering Manna. In the paintings after the Gerusalemme, Poussin does not merely illustrate Tasso's verse, but cultivates pictorial means to refashion the poet's metaphors of desire. The interplay of poetic and painterly imagery also animates Poussin's Ovidian masterpieces, the Echo and Narcissus and the Realm of Flora. Offering interpretations of these works, this book also investigates Poussin's larger literary culture and how this context illuminates the artist's response to contemporary poetic texts.

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Recensione:

'Jonathan Unglaub weighs in in this book with his own substantial offering on the 'links between Poussin's art and literary culture'.' Quaderni d'italianistica

'Unglaub's book is a welcome addition.' Renaissance Quarterly

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This book examines how Poussin cultivated a poetics of painting from the literary culture of his own time, and especially through his response to the work of Torquato Tasso.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521833671
• ISBN 13: 9780521833677
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 308