Canova and the writing of art criticism in eighteenth-century Naples
| Autor: | Christina Ferando |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Literature
Linguistics and Language Sculpture Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts Adonis biology Art criticism business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Subject (philosophy) Art history Art biology.organism_classification Language and Linguistics Feud Content (Freudian dream analysis) business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Word & Image. 30:362-376 |
| ISSN: | 1943-2178 0266-6286 |
| Popis: | This article explores the literary debate that erupted in the Neapolitan press after the public display of Antonio Canova’s Venus and Adonis in 1795. The feud was sparked by two articles written by Marcello Marchesini and Carlo Castone, Count della Torre di Rezzonico, respectively. Each explored a different aspect of sculptural practice — invenzione, the creative selection of the subject, and esecuzione, the act of chiseling and shaping the marble block. Soon, however, a third writer, Tommaso Gargallo, responded to the two texts, and sparked a polemic that raged between Neapolitan literati for nearly a year. This debate, never before discussed in the secondary literature, soon shifted its focus from Canova’s working method per se to the question of which author had best captured — and communicated — the most intimate understanding of the artist and his work. In the end, critics were more preoccupied with the means of expression than they were with the content of the articles — or even the sculpture itself... |
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