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Description: Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History
In theory, the Greek ideal should appear entirely whole and centred, its harmoniously poised body the very model of a similarly constituted ideal subjectivity. It still needed, however, to bear some trace of the deep-seated disturbances that motivated the fantasies of ideal oneness it embodied. It had to appear untouched by contradiction and difference even as its affective power drew upon anxieties associated with the ‘real’ divisions of the self, for only on condition that it did not entirely …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.145-181
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00050.008
Description: The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist
During the early Renaissance, shifts in attitudes towards the artist affected both his social status and the extent to which he was valued as an intellectual. The favoured court artist in the early fifteenth century might be made a valet de chambre or a familiaris, the title bestowed, for example, on Pisanello by Gianfrancesco Gonzaga of Mantua in 1439. This position gave him a somewhat higher standing within court society than that of other artisans, a position from which he could …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.61-87
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00147.005

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