This study aspires to understand and constextualize the pictorial development of the representation of the Night between Fifteenth and Seventeenth Century, both investigating the stylistic peculiarities which have defined its aesthetic character in the Modern age, and deepening the eidetic horizons against which the apogee of its historical fortune stood out in the Counter-reformation Italy. In the light of an interdisciplinary critical approach, prevalently tended towards iconological paradigms, the image of the night has been studied through a stereoscopic observation aimed at considering its artistic phenomenology according to sinchronic and diachronic axis of work, with particular attention to the theoric and poetic causes that have accompanied its development and the symbolic and spiritual implications rising from the prevalent sacred nature of the late Renaissance tenebrism. In the first part of the work artistic literature of Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century has been investigated with the purpose of problematizing the moments and the categories which have structured the historical genesis of the painted night. Works such as De Pictura by Leon Battista Alberti, the writings by Leonardo da Vinci, Pintura antigua by Francisco de Hollanda and Vite by Giorgio Vasari, among others, have been the center of an integral analysis focused on the themes of light, of colour, of shadow and of darkness, through which specific aesthetic coordinates have been delineated in order to subsume the nocturne in them, among the medieval heritage of optique and perspective speculations, the modern ideal of the virtuoso painter and the rediscovery of key-concepts of classical rhetoric, from the “wonder”, to the “illogical”, to the “sublime”. The second part of the study is oriented to an horizontal analysis of some contexts emblematic for the observation of the expressive and religious qualities of an original and programmatic interest in these elaborate representations of shadows, between the nocturnal precedents of Early Renaissance art and of Roman tenebrism of the Baroque Age. The Lombardy of Antonio Campi and of bishop Carlo Borromeo, the Genoa of Luca Cambiaso and of the Jesuits and the Verona of Felice Brusasorci and of bishop Agostino Valier, constitute three related focal points useful not only for deepening the intuitive permeability between luministic experimentalism and peculiar forms of the rhetoric and poetic ideals of the Counter-reformation culture, but also for exploring, in virtue of the symbolic and participative function of sacred art, the modalities in which the nocturne painting mobilizes an emotional catarsis closed to the transfigurative and tropological vocation of the religious image, as well as the symbolic reason of devotion and cult.
La ricerca si è impegnata a comprendere e contestualizzare gli sviluppi artistici relativi alla rappresentazione della notte tra XV e XVII secolo, tanto indagando le peculiarità formali che ne hanno definito il profilo estetico nel corso dell’età moderna, quanto approfondendo gli orizzonti eidetici che hanno fatto da sfondo all’apogeo della sua fortuna storica nell’Italia della Controriforma. Alla luce di un approccio critico interdisciplinare, prevalentemente orientato verso paradigmi ermeneutici di stampo iconologico, l’immagine dell’oscurità è stata interrogata con uno sguardo stereoscopico che tentasse di considerare la sua fenomenologia artistica secondo assi di studio sincronici e diacronici, con particolare attenzione alle ragioni teoriche e poetiche che ne hanno accompagnato lo sviluppo, e alle implicazioni simboliche e spirituali affioranti dalla preponderante desinenza sacra del “tenebrismo” tardo-rinascimentale. Nella prima parte del lavoro è stata ripercorsa la letteratura artistica di Quattro e Cinquecento con il fine di problematizzare i momenti e le categorie che hanno informato la genesi storica della notte dipinta. Il De Pictura di Leon Battista Alberti, gli scritti di Leonardo da Vinci, la Pintura antigua di Francisco de Hollanda, le Vite Giorgio Vasari, tra gli altri, sono stati al centro di una disamina integrale polarizzata intorno ai temi della luce, del colore, dell’ombra e dell’oscurità, attraverso cui delineare le coordinate estetiche entro le quali sussumere il notturno, tra l’eredità dell’ottica e della perspettiva medievale, l’ideale virtuoso della maniera moderna, e la riscoperta di concetti chiave della retorica classica, dalla meraviglia all’illogico al sublime. La seconda sezione dello studio si indirizza ad un’analisi orizzontale di alcuni contesti considerati emblematici per osservare la qualità espressiva e religiosa di un rinnovato e programmatico interesse per tali elaborate sciografie, tra i precedenti notturni di inizio XVI secolo e il tenebrismo romano di primo Seicento. La Lombardia di Antonio Campi e del vescovo Carlo Borromeo, la Genova di Luca Cambiaso e dei Gesuiti, la Verona di Felice Brusasorci e del vescovo Agostino Valier, costituiscono tre interrelati nuclei di approfondimento atti non solo a mettere in rilievo l’intuitiva permeabilità tra l’accentuato sperimentalismo a lume artificiale e alcune forme dell’ideale poetico e retorico tridentino, ma soprattutto per sondare, in virtù della funzione simbolica e partecipativa demandata all’arte sacra, i modi in cui il dipinto notturno, al di là di specifiche varianti iconografiche, mobilitasse una catarsi emozionale coesa alla vocazione tanto trasformativa quanto tropologica dell’immagine religiosa nonché comune alla simbolica cultuale e devozionale.
La notte moderna : pittura dell'oscurità nel Cinquecento
RATTO, LORENZO
2020-05-26
Abstract
This study aspires to understand and constextualize the pictorial development of the representation of the Night between Fifteenth and Seventeenth Century, both investigating the stylistic peculiarities which have defined its aesthetic character in the Modern age, and deepening the eidetic horizons against which the apogee of its historical fortune stood out in the Counter-reformation Italy. In the light of an interdisciplinary critical approach, prevalently tended towards iconological paradigms, the image of the night has been studied through a stereoscopic observation aimed at considering its artistic phenomenology according to sinchronic and diachronic axis of work, with particular attention to the theoric and poetic causes that have accompanied its development and the symbolic and spiritual implications rising from the prevalent sacred nature of the late Renaissance tenebrism. In the first part of the work artistic literature of Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century has been investigated with the purpose of problematizing the moments and the categories which have structured the historical genesis of the painted night. Works such as De Pictura by Leon Battista Alberti, the writings by Leonardo da Vinci, Pintura antigua by Francisco de Hollanda and Vite by Giorgio Vasari, among others, have been the center of an integral analysis focused on the themes of light, of colour, of shadow and of darkness, through which specific aesthetic coordinates have been delineated in order to subsume the nocturne in them, among the medieval heritage of optique and perspective speculations, the modern ideal of the virtuoso painter and the rediscovery of key-concepts of classical rhetoric, from the “wonder”, to the “illogical”, to the “sublime”. The second part of the study is oriented to an horizontal analysis of some contexts emblematic for the observation of the expressive and religious qualities of an original and programmatic interest in these elaborate representations of shadows, between the nocturnal precedents of Early Renaissance art and of Roman tenebrism of the Baroque Age. The Lombardy of Antonio Campi and of bishop Carlo Borromeo, the Genoa of Luca Cambiaso and of the Jesuits and the Verona of Felice Brusasorci and of bishop Agostino Valier, constitute three related focal points useful not only for deepening the intuitive permeability between luministic experimentalism and peculiar forms of the rhetoric and poetic ideals of the Counter-reformation culture, but also for exploring, in virtue of the symbolic and participative function of sacred art, the modalities in which the nocturne painting mobilizes an emotional catarsis closed to the transfigurative and tropological vocation of the religious image, as well as the symbolic reason of devotion and cult.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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