Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Freiburg (Breisgau), Universiẗat, Diss., 1987. / Erscheinungsjahr an der Hauptitelstelle: 1987.

This thesis concerns a shift in the historiography of the Venetian painter Giorgione (c1477- 1510). In important ways, this change was caused by Joseph Archer Crowe (1825-1896) and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1819-1897) in their A History of Painting in North Italy (1871). This text met seminal reactions from Walter Pater (1839-1894) in his essay “The School of Giorgione” (1877) and from Giovanni Morelli (1816-1891) in his Die Werke italienischer Meister in den Galerien von München, Dresden und Berlin (1880). Following a method of close reading, the analysis will concentrate on the intertextual relationship between these three works. This thesis contends that Crowe and Cavalcaselle comprehensively problematised scholarship on the artist, creating a “new” Giorgione; that Pater responded dialectally to scientific connoisseurship with aesthetic criticism, intellectually justifying and morally absolving his interpretation; that Morelli responded by offering a noticeably different catalogue of paintings, and by making Giorgione function within his anti-authoritarian rhetoric as a validation for his method; however, in so doing, Morelli was conducting an ironic problematisation of connoisseurship in general. The thesis begins with an introduction to the “old” Giorgione, before discussing the concepts of aestheticism and connoisseurship. It is then divided into three studies and a conclusion. The first part considers how the artist was understood in the nineteenth century prior to Crowe and Cavalcaselle’s research, before discussing the nature of the two connoisseurs’ enquiry. The second part focuses on Pater and his relationship with Giorgione, placing his essay in the context of The Renaissance (1873); after this the study follows Pater as he defines his theory of aesthetic criticism and responds to what he understands as scientific history, before analysing his interpretation of Giorgione. The third and final part of this thesis will seek to understand Morelli’s ambiguous text and the function of the artist within it; examining his method, rhetoric, and polemic with Crowe and Cavalcaselle, it will conclude by arguing that irony was an active concept in Morelli’s thinking. By attending to a specific artist’s historiography at a particular time, this thesis indirectly reveals the way art history on Italian painting operated in this period, when the discipline was undergoing the processes of professionalisation and institutionalisation.

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Denna uppsats handlar om den italienska renässansgrafikern Giulio Campagnola (ca. 1482 - ca. 1517) och hans konstnärskap. Syftet är att beskriva Giulios roll i utvecklingen av grafiken som konstform och hur han överför det tidiga 1500-talets pastorala måleri och humanistiska idévärld till grafiken. Frågeställningarna centreras runt Giulios stil och teknik, hans tolkning av konstnärliga förebilder, betydelser som kan utläsas i motiven samt hur han uppfattades i sin samtid. Forskningsmaterialet består av fem av Giulios gravyrer, varav två har studerats på Nationalmuseum. Gravyrerna analyseras i tre steg: bakgrund och kontext, förhållning till förlagor vad gäller komposition och uttryck samt tolkning av mening och innebörd av motiven. För kontextualisering används Michael Baxandalls metodologi ”Period eye”. Som teoretiskt ramverk för tolkning av motiven används Erwin Panofskys modell för ikonologisk analys. I uppsatsens första del beskrivs Giulios konstnärskap följt av kontextuell beskrivning av renässansens Venedig, humanismens idévärld, den pastorala poesin, den venetianska konstrevolutionen, grafikens tekniska och konstnärliga utveckling samt synen på och betraktandet av grafik. I uppsatsens analysdel beskrivs gravyrerna gällande stil, teknik, komposition i relation till förlagor, i synnerhet Dürer och Giorgione samt underliggande mening och innebörd. Uppsatsen avslutas med en diskussion kring Giulios roll som teknisk innovatör, hur han överför pastoralens måleri och humanistiska teman till grafiken, synen på Giulio i termer av originalitet samt hans bredare roll som intellektuell allkonstnär.

(in English): Represented dissertation dedicated to the issue of male portraits of friends in Italian renaissance painting. Despite of existence of some publications focused on the specific aspects of male portraiture, this area has not been yet given sufficient research interest. In the introductory clause is presented theoretical outline of the male friendship concept of male friendship in the culture of the Italian Renaissance and also some key aspects of the portrait genre. The work is divided into chapters by topic: for example, "Portrait and Antique", "Portrait and Remembrance", "Portrait and Poetry". Some particularly interesting moments were extracted into separate excursions as profile portraits of two men, the subject of a mirror in a portrait genre, the communication possibilities of images. Artworks analyzed in the present research are not classified into a classical model of chronological "development". The pictures are interconnected with theoretical thinking, which is also conditioned by the artwork itself. For each painting, existing researches have been gathered and comprehended. There are also new iconographic interpretations of some of the presented works. For research have been abundantly used literature of period, theoretical writings and poetry. The work tries to respond to...