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| Title: | Modalities of the Idea: Stylistic Change and L'Idea della Bellezza in Early Modern Italy |
| Authors: | Hutson, James Lee |
| Advisors: | Colantuono, Anthony |
| Department/Program: | Art History and Archaeology |
| Type: | Dissertation |
| Sponsors: | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) |
| Keywords: | 0377
Art History
Stylistic Change; Art Theory |
| Issue Date: | 8-Apr-2008 |
| Abstract: | In the careers of many prominent seventeenth-century painters such as Annibale Carracci, Guercino, Domenichino and even Caravaggio there is a familiar stylistic progression: each began their careers with a chiaroscuro manner rooted in Venetian and Emilian naturalism and then later shift to a markedly classicizing manner characterized by a brightening or lightening of the palette, a tendency to idealize the human form, and an insistence on composing in a series of parallel planes.
The art-theoretical concept known as L'Idea della bellezza was the touchstone in cases where this stylistic phenomenon manifested itself. Developed and modified in antiquity to maintain its relevance to art theory, the Platonic Idea went through many variations and interpretative models until it was reintroduced to art theory in the Renaissance. At the same time, expectations of artists increased as the arti di disegno sought to be included among the liberal arts. Artists' primary and secondary phases of edu... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8065 |
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