Poussin and the Poetics of Painting: Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of TassoCambridge University Press, 2006 M02 6 - 282 pages 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. Tasso's poetic discourses were the most important source for Poussin's theory of painting. Poussin does not merely illustrate Tasso's verse, but cultivates pictorial means to refashion the poet's metaphors of desire. Offering new 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, especially in his mythological paintings. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION I | 1 |
POUSSINS NOVITÀ | 38 |
METAPHORICAL REFLECTIONS IN ECHO | 71 |
THE CRITIQUE OF THE GERUSALEMME LIBERATA | 108 |
POUSSIN MARINO AND PAINTING IN | 133 |
POUSSIN RAPHAEL AND TASSO THE POETICS | 157 |
POUSSIN AND THE GERUSALEMME | 198 |
Appendix | 225 |
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Poussin and the Poetics of Painting: Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso Jonathan Unglaub No preview available - 2014 |
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Abandonment of Armida Abduction of Rinaldo action Adone Adonis Aeneas Aleandro amorous ancient Antonio Tempesta Ariosto Armida Art Resource artist Ashdod Barberini beauty Bellori Bernardo Castello Bonfait Bruni Caravaggio Cassiano Cassiano dal Pozzo Chambray Chantelou Clorinda Colantuono color composition concept Cortona critical delight Discorsi del poema Domenichino Echo and Narcissus epic episodes Erminia Félibien figures Furioso Galileo gaze Gerusalemme liberata Giovanni Goffredo Hénin history painting Illustration of Canto imagery letter literary Louvre Manna Marino marvel materia metaphor Museum myth Narcissus's narrative Nicolas Poussin novità Osservazioni Ovid's Ovidian pagan painter Paris peripeteia Photo pictorial picture Pietro Pietro da Cortona plot poem poema eroico poet poetry polemics Poussin's painting Pozzo Raphael representation Rinaldo Rinaldo and Armida Rome Saint Petersburg scene Stigliani structure subject matter Tancred Tancred and Erminia Tancred's Tassian Tasso's poetics Tempesta Testa textuality theory tion Torquato Tasso Tronsarelli unified unity Venus verisimilitude verse