Penelope’s Web: Francesco Primaticcio’s Epic Revision at Fontainebleau*
| Autor: | Giancarlo Fiorenza |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Literature
History Painting Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts Poetry business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Sentimentality Mural 06 humanities and the arts Anagnorisis Art 060401 art practice history & theory 060202 literary studies Adventure Romance 0602 languages and literature Beauty business 0604 arts media_common |
| Zdroj: | Renaissance Quarterly. 59:795-827 |
| ISSN: | 1935-0236 0034-4338 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/ren.2008.0370 |
| Popis: | Francesco Primaticcio designed his celebrated Galerie d’Ulysse at Fontainebleau (now destroyed) at a time when the epic genre was being updated and redefined. One of the most popular scenes from the gallery, Ulysses and Penelope recounting their adventures to one another in bed (from book 23 of theOdyssey),was adapted and revised in an independent composition by Primaticcio himself:Ulysses and Penelope(Toledo Museum of Art, ca. 1560). In contrast to the Fontainebleau mural, the artist’s self-conscious, refined pictorial language for his canvas converts epic energy into lyric sentimentality. As a result, Penelope becomes the central focus of the new composition. Through the language of gesture the painting stresses such themes as beauty and desire, and further employs such prized poetic devices as reversal (peripeteia) and recognition (anagnorisis). By responding to the formal prescriptions of both the epic and romance genres, Primaticcio exploits the expressive and visual potential of the Homeric episode in an utterly novel way. The painting opens up questions into ways of reading, viewing, and interpreting mythic subject matter in sixteenth-century France. |
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