This thesis examines how making extends artists' thoughts beyond their conceptions. Central to this is consideration of how an artist's statements and their work relate: this thesis argues that the relationship is neither of identity nor contradiction, but of a productive tension from which emerges a richer understanding of thought. A similar approach underscores this doctorate's relationship of studio and written components, both of which desire self-sufficiency. The studio work consists of discrete yet mutually informing series, all engaged with the specificity of a moment of exposure, whether here and now or recording a past moment. The notion of 'documentation' underscores these works, which include large chemical photographs, high-definition video, cyanotypes and extensive exploration of casting to reveal latent images. The written component is a thorough study of the various instances of Medardo Rosso's sculpture Ecce Puer, offering art-historical and theoretical grounding of hands-on making as a way pressing cultural issues inhere in a work at a more fundamental level than understood by its contemporaries or maker. The first chapter locates Rosso in his historical milieu. Chapter 2 assesses the elements constituting Ecce Puer; it argues that no definitions of a 'work' adequately encompass these, and coins the term 'complex work' to designate artworks indivisibly singular and plural, concrete and abstract. Chapter 3 offers phenomenological interpretation of Rosso's confused writings, illuminating them through Maurice Merleau-Ponty's late philosophy but understanding Rosso's thought as inadequate to the complexity of his work. Chapter 4 examines Rosso's photography, specifically his photography of photographs, connecting what this achieves to his phenomenology. Chapter 5 introduces a key notion of 'friendship' to understand how the connections between instances of Ecce Puer became 'meaningful'. Having offered a fundamentally new interpretation of Rosso's project, chapter 6 extends Michael Fried's history of French painting to relocate Rosso within early twentieth-century art.

This dissertation considers how the artistic output of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was related to his poetic development and associations with different communities in Florence and Rome. The author of more than 300 poems, Michelangelo was arguably the most prolific artist-poet of the Renaissance. Still, no study has scrutinized the dynamic relationship between his work across media in relation to contemporary shifts in Italian literary culture. Centered on the decades surrounding Michelangelo's permanent move to the Eternal City in 1534, this dissertation shows how he used his creative production to achieve stability in an era buffeted by war and political upheaval. The fortunes of Florence and Rome were inextricably bound, and this dissertation uses surviving visual and written evidence to reconstruct Michelangelo's links to dense intellectual and homosocial networks in these cities. Michelangelo wrote poems to build social ties at a time when the status of artists was in great flux, and this dissertation demonstrates why his poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, and architecture cannot be and would not have been understood apart from one another.

This dissertation focuses on the artistic and architectural patronage of the Pucci family, Medici stalwarts whose carefully constructed political and cultural alignment with the ruling family of Florence was the impetus for their rising fortunes over the course of the 15th and 16th centuries. Their homes, chapels, and palaces in Tuscany and Rome were designed and furnished with paintings, sculpture, and intarsiated woodwork attributable to Michelozzo; the Pollaiuolo brothers; Botticelli; Giuliano da Sangallo and the heirs to his workshop: Francesco da Sangallo and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger; Baccio d'Agnolo; Pontormo; Bronzino; Baccio and Raffaello da Montelupo; Pietro and Domenico Rosselli; Michelangelo; Bartolommeo Ammannati; Giovanni Battista Naldini; Alessandro Allori; and Giovanni Battista Caccini.

Orientador: Luiz Cesar Marques Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T18:03:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carvalho_LarissaSousade_M.pdf: 23224889 bytes, checksum: 87808a1fa3818c985298723245553554 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A pesquisa apresenta como principal objeto de análise a obra De gli habiti antichi, et moderni di diuerse parti del mondo (1590), do italiano Cesare Vecellio (c.1521-1601). Uma segunda edição foi publicada sob o título Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo em 1598. Essa apresenta um projeto diverso da primeira, tendo seu conteúdo iconográfico ampliado, ao contrário dos comentários do autor, omitidos ou simplesmente reduzidos. O surgimento deste gênero de publicação, os chamados "livros de vestuário", ocorreram durante o século XVI, juntamente ao interesse cartográfico e enciclopédico. A época do autor presenciou a rápida expansão da imprensa em Veneza, dos studioli, os cabinets de curiosité e os Wunderkämmern, além de acompanhar a criação de uma rede interligada de publicações que firmavam um repertório de "tipos sociais" repetidos ao longo desses anos e que auxiliava na visão que, sobretudo os venezianos, tinham do restante do mundo. O teor da obra, grosso modo, permeia os costumes - em um sentido bastante amplo - aliados à representação de uma série de trajes. Vecellio não apenas representa a vestimenta europeia, como também inclui exemplares asiáticos, africanos e americanos. Essa antologia do vestuário mundial também é considera por alguns autores como a primeira história moderna do vestuário, já que são concebidas imagens comentadas de povos da Antiguidade até o século do autor, em um amplo espectro geográfico. No presente trabalho intenta-se perceber, portanto, o projeto da obra vecelliana. A partir de três ensaios discutiremos a respeito da ruína de valores antigos e da mutação (a veste aliada ao mito veneziano, a questão da boa governança e prosperidade das cidades, a relação entre antigo e moderno etc.); em seguida, problematizaremos a postura de Veneza ao projetar uma imagem positiva da cidade em meio a um contexto conturbado, bem como o modo vecelliano de dialogar com essa questão mediante a apresentação de "tipos sociais" (doge, virgem veneziana, cortesã...) associados à auto-imagem do Estado; e, por fim, apresentamos um panorama de sua obra, cujo objetivo será compreender a postura e o discurso de nosso autor frente à alteridade, discutindo, assim, algumas noções e a problemática do "Eu" que se define a partir do "Outro". Em correlato, propõe-se a tradução parcial do conteúdo da obra para uma versão portuguesa (inédita e comentada), no intuito de contribuir para as discussões teóricas - ínfimas em nossa realidade brasileira -, sem abandonar, entretanto, o escopo aqui descrito / Abstract: This research presents as main object of analysis the book De gli habiti antichi, et moderni di diuerse parti del mondo (1590), by the Italian author Cesare Vecellio (c.1521-1601). A second edition was published with the title Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo in 1598. This edition presents a project different from the first one. Its iconographic content is expanded, whereas the author's comments are either reduced or even omitted. The emergence of this type of publication, called costume books, occurred during the Sixteenth Century, along with the cartographic and encyclopedic interest. The period in which the author lived, witnessed the rapid expansion of the printing press in Venice, as well as of the studioli, the cabinets de curiosité and Wunderkammern. Apart from that, those years followed the creation of an interconnected network of publications that established a repertoire of "social types", repeated throughout the years, and helped in the idea that, especially the Venetians, had about the rest of the world. The content of the work covers the habits - in a very broad sense - combined with the representation of a variety of costumes. Vecellio does not only represent European clothing, but he also includes Asian, African and American costumes. This anthology of world clothing is also considered, by some authors, as the first modern history of costume, since it covers commented images from Antiquity until the time of the author, in a broad geographical spectrum. In this text we aim to understand the project of the Vecellian work. Starting with three essays of the current study, we will discuss the ruin of the old values and the mutation (clothing associated with the Venetian myth, the issue of good governance and prosperity of cities, the relationship between ancient and modern etc.); then we will problematize the posture of Venice, which projects a positive image of the city within a turbulent context, as well as the Vecellian way of discussing this subject while presenting the "social types" (doge, Venetian virgin, courtesan...), associated with the State's self-image; finally, we will present an overview of his work, whose purpose will be to understand the author's posture and the discourse towards otherness, discussing some problematic notions of the "I", which is defined from the confrontation with the "Other". Furthermore, together with this, we propose a partial translation of the content of the book into a Portuguese version (unpublished and commented), with the intention of contributing to the theoretical debate - very restricted in our Brazilian reality -, without abandoning, however, the scope described herein / Mestrado / Historia da Arte / Mestra em História

Italian artists working in eighteenth-century Britain played a significant role in the country's developing interest in the fine arts. The contributions of artists arriving before mid-century, including Pellegrini, Ricci, and Canaletto, have been noted, but the presence of a larger number of Italians from mid-century is seldom acknowledged. Increasing British wealth and attention to the arts meant more customers for immigrant Italian artists. Bringing with them the skills for which they were renowned throughout Europe, their talents were valued in Britain. Many stayed for prolonged periods, raising families and becoming active members in the artistic community. In a thriving economy, they found opportunities to produce innovative works for a new clientele, devising histories, landscapes, portraits, and prints to entice buyers. The most successful were accomplished networkers, maintaining cordial relationships with British artists and cultivating a variety of patrons. They influenced others through teaching, through formal and informal exchanges with colleagues, and through exhibition of their works that could be studied and emulated.

Orientador: Luiz Cesar Marques Filho / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T19:25:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Byington_ElisaLustosa_D.pdf: 11767756 bytes, checksum: cc888a875e1153c43477a94f879eb9be (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: A primeira edição de "As Vidas dos mais excelentes arquitetos, pintores e escultores italianos de Cimabue aos nossos dias", escrita por Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), arquiteto e pintor de Arezzo, é publicada em 1550. Ela é marcada pelas questões que animavam a Academia Florentina (1541) - a questão da historia, da língua vernácula e da sua difusão - e pela "disputa entre as artes", conforme proposta por Benedetto Varchi (1503-1565) nas célebres "Duas Lições". A segunda edição das "Vidas", publicada em 1568, será marcada por outra academia e por nova versão da "disputa"; i.é, pela Academia delle Arti del Disegno e o texto "Una Selva di Notizie", escrito por Dom Vincenzo Borghini(1515-1580), lugar-tenente da nova academia, rediscutindo a hierarquia entre as artes. Para a nova Academia, fundada em 1563, e para o texto "Una Selva di Notizie" (1564), a referência e modelo eram aqueles, institucional e intelectual, da década de "40. Tanto a academia dos artistas, fundada pelo próprio Vasari junto com o filólogo Borghini, seria inspirada na Academia Florentina, conforme declarado por eles, quanto a retomada da "disputa entre as artes" pelo lugar-tenente da Academia do Desenho, fazia referência à Lição de Varchi e às cartas escritas pelos artistas em resposta ao debate de quase vinte anos antes. Tais aspectos institucionais, e as distintas características do debate intelectual, influenciam respectivamente cada uma das edições com idéias que procuramos ressaltar e analisar no âmbito da política cultural do duque Cosimo I / Abstract: The first edition os the "Lives of the most excellent architetcts, painters and sculptors from Cimabue to ourdays" written by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), architect and painter of Arezzo, is published in 1550. It is marked by questions that directed the Florentine Academy (1541) - the question of history, of the vernacular ando its dissemination - and by the "dispute between the arts", as proposed by Benedetto Varchi (1503- 1565) in the famous "Due Lezzioni" (Two Lessons). The second edition of the "Lives", published in 1568, is marked by another Academy and by new version of the "dispute"; i.e. by the Academia delle Arti del Disegno and the text "Una Selva di Notizie", written by Don Vincenzo Borghini(1515-1580), lieutenant of the new Academy, rejudging the hierarchy between the arts. For the new Academy, founded in 1563, and the text "Una Selva di Notizie" (1564), the reference and model were those, institutional and intellectual, of the "40s. Both the academy of the artists, founded by Vasari himself along with the philologist Borghini, would be inspired by the Florentine Academy, as stated by them, as the resumption of the "dispute between the arts" by the Lieutenant of the Academy of drawing, made reference to the Lesson of Varchi and letters written by the artists in response to the debate of almost twenty years before. Such institutional aspects, and the distinct characteristics of the intellectual debate, influence respectively each of editions with ideas that emphasize and analyze the cultural policy of the Duke Cosimo / Doutorado / Historia da Arte / Doutor em História

This dissertation reconstructs the original form and sixteenth-century decoration of the lost Venetian church of Santa Maria Assunta dei Crociferi, destroyed after the suppression of the Crociferi in 1656 to make way for the present church of the Gesuiti. The destruction of the church, the scattering of its contents, and the almost total lack of documentation of the religious order for which the space was built, has obscured our understanding of the many works of art it once contained, produced by some of the most important Venetian artists of the sixteenth century. This project seeks to correct scholarly neglect of this important church, and to restore context and meaning to these objects by reconstructing their original placement in the interest of a collective interpretation. Various types, patterns and phases of patronage at the church—monastic, private and corporate—are discussed to reveal interconnections between these groups, and to highlight to role of the Crociferi as architects of a sophisticated decorative programme that was designed to respond to the latest artistic trends, and to visually demonstrate their adherence to orthodoxy at a moment of religious upheaval and reform.