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Francis I in the Studio of Benvenuto Cellini

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Description: The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance: Geography, Mobility, and Style
If Armenini’s Precepts is notable for circumscribing the discourse of mobility within an autobiographical framework, it certainly was not without precedent. As an event instrumental in providing commissions and extending knowledge of the world beyond the confines of one’s patria, travel was a recurring theme in artists’ first-person narratives. We might hazard that the first-person narration of mobility would generate straightforward reportage, of distances covered shorn of the rich figurative …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.216-233
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00160.011

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