Since the sixteenth century, within the debate on the nobility of painting, painters inferred some ideas from literature to celebrate their work. In the Genoese context, which is proposed as a case study, the use of the images to emphasize the artist’s role follows at least two ways. The first is based on a theological substratum, involves acheropita images and depictions of Saint Luke, culminating in the idea of the painter as a “Speculum Dei”. The second uses the symbolic language of personifications, including animal symbology, as an allusion to the mimesis of nature.

Immagini del pittore e della pittura tra valenze religiose e allegoria. Esempi genovesi

valentina borniotto
2022-01-01

Abstract

Since the sixteenth century, within the debate on the nobility of painting, painters inferred some ideas from literature to celebrate their work. In the Genoese context, which is proposed as a case study, the use of the images to emphasize the artist’s role follows at least two ways. The first is based on a theological substratum, involves acheropita images and depictions of Saint Luke, culminating in the idea of the painter as a “Speculum Dei”. The second uses the symbolic language of personifications, including animal symbology, as an allusion to the mimesis of nature.
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