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The book is divided into two main parts, preceded by an introduction which foregrounds the histor... more The book is divided into two main parts, preceded by an introduction which foregrounds the historiographical treatment of Vasari’s frescos and his Ragionamenti in order to exemplify how 20th-century methodological theories and concepts concerning the question of allegory and hermeneutics are related to the analyses of Cinquecento written sources.
Part One is dedicated to the creation, use and immediate reception of the new apartments in the Palazzo Vecchio. By drawing on a rich number of published and unpublished visual and written sources, I reconstruct and analyze the political context, the structures and pragmatic working steps of Vasari’s workshop, the role of figures such as the so-called "iconographical advisor", the intended public and the immediate reception of the rooms. By doing so, I show how the planning was determined not by an initial invention of the "program", but by consecutive decisions, the preference of pictorial over conceptual solutions, improvisations, and sometimes even misunderstandings. While considering aspects such as the "private" and the "public" in settings such as the ducal Palazzo Vecchio, I argue that the frescos and ceiling paintings favor spontaneous discoveries and that they evoke interpretations based on visual analogies rather than forcing the beholder to recall historical and mythographic knowledge available only to learned men. However, this mode of "light" reading does not necessarily prevent the mediation of pro-medicean messages in the new rooms of the Palazzo Vecchio. This is, as I demonstrate, partly due to the artistic re-use of inventions and designs: pragmatic ways to quickly produce decorations on a monumental scale, but which at the same time create a recognizable visual repertoire and symbolic pattern to represent and glorify a patron.
Part Two begins by reconsidering and revising the genesis, dating and authorship of the Ragionamenti, a text that is partially preserved in a manuscript and that was published only posthumously in 1588, fourteen years after Vasari’s death. The following chapters systematically investigate how descriptions of artworks, similar to those in the Ragionamenti, became increasingly more frequent over the course of the second half of the Cinquecento and the early 17th century, and I analyze and differentiate the literary genres, traditions and rhetorical modes of these image-related texts in the early modern period. I argue that the way in which explanations for paintings and painted allegories are suggested in such texts recall verbal practices of the artistic discourse, and by doing so, they bear witness to either the application of hermeneutical methods for the interpretation of images, or to poetic contemplations – the latter being linked rather to aesthetic appreciation and ekphrastic traditions than to ancient and medieval concepts of allegorical readings. That an increasing number of descriptions of artworks were published in the decades leading up to the Baroque has two possible explanations, both of which have origins in ancient rhetorical writings: First, the understanding that learned, political, or other meanings of artworks can not only be transmitted, but above all be determined through texts. Second, that the fame of artworks and artists depends on written texts (an idea that Vasari, who started to draft his Ragionamenti in which he glorifies his own paintings several years before he wrote his autobiography, knew best).
After all, as the final chapter and the conclusion of the book summarize, the Cinquecento established a vivid written discourse on the arts that even engendered the writing of paratexts to paratexts: descriptions of artworks that required responses, to which other publications – but also paintings – answered yet again. Such texts therefore did not simply promote artworks, but helped to create a new way to reflect upon images’ meanings, and encouraged an artistic discourse – and by doing so, they shaped the way in which art and iconography has been perceived from the Cinquecento onwards.

The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the ... more The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the European Early Modern period that coincided with the establishment of which images of the body were to be considered ʻdecentʼ and representable, and which disapproved, censored, or prohibited. Simultaneously, artists and the public became increasingly interested in the depiction of specific body parts or excretions. This book explores the concept of indecency and its relation to the human body across drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and texts. The ten essays investigate questions raised by such objects about practices and social norms regarding the body, and they look at the particular function of those artworks within this discourse. The heterogeneous media, genres, and historical contexts north and south of the Alps studied by the authors demonstrate how the alleged indecency clashed with artistic intentions and challenges traditional paradigms of the historiography of Early Modern visual culture.

Lorenzo Ghiberti fu attivo negli anni cruciali del passaggio tra la tradizione artistica medieval... more Lorenzo Ghiberti fu attivo negli anni cruciali del passaggio tra la tradizione artistica medievale e il periodo storico che oggi chiamiamo «Rinascimento». Leggendo le riflessioni teoriche contenute nei suoi Commentarii, si comprende quanto la rivalutazione dell’antichità classica, i nuovi sviluppi scientifici e un’osservazione più assidua della natura abbiano contribuito a mutare drasticamente sia i modi di produzione, che la ricezione delle opere d’arte. Ghiberti non si limitò a trasmettere questo ampio bagaglio conoscitivo agli artefici che frequentarono la sua bottega fiorentina (tra questi, molti degli artisti più promettenti della nuova generazione). Ghiberti fu anche il primo artista moderno dotato di una coscienza storico-critica. I Commentarii contengono il primo significativo resoconto storico moderno sulle arti, attento agli svolgimenti stilistici e alla filiazione delle diverse generazioni artistiche. Il presente volume indaga la genesi e il contenuto teorico dei Commentarii in relazione alle coeve pratiche artistiche e alla ricezione del pensiero di Ghiberti. Così facendo, porta all’attenzione del lettore problemi e domande che sono centrali per comprendere la trasformazione delle arti nel Quattrocento, e quell’ampio fenomeno culturale ad essa legato che è l’emersione della coscienza intellettuale dell’artista moderno.

Papers by Fabian Jonietz

Between Continuity and Innovation * Among several friends, colleagues and external reviewers who ... more Between Continuity and Innovation * Among several friends, colleagues and external reviewers who have commented on this paper, I wish to thank especially Robert Brennan for his critical reading and considerate revision of my text. It goes without saying that for any remaining inconsistencies and other errors I alone am responsible. 1 Cf.-purely exemplary-the overview and problematization of older and more recent research positions in Oy-Marra 2011; for more on this question, see the second section of this essay, which deals with historiography. 2 'Io ho messo in opera le figure altre volte lodate da loro, e songli infinitamente piacciute: se ora gli dispiacciono e non le lodano, che ne posso io?'; Vasari 1966-1997, III, 610. On Vasari's critique of artistic repetition in the Vite in comparison with his own practice, see Jonietz 2010, pp. 173-175.

This essay explores depictions and descriptions of bodily excretion in light of theories of creat... more This essay explores depictions and descriptions of bodily excretion in light of theories of creativity and artistic practices. References to physical effluxes and excretions by early seventeenth-century Northern painters, I argue, pursue sixteenth-century concepts which connect lower body parts and physical activities to visual perception and human production. The visual arts were inclined to reflect on such ideas not only because of ubiquitous metaphors comparing the absorption of intellectual matter and their subsequent mental digestion to the conversion of food, but also because waste products had a fundamental role in artist's workshops. The dual quality of excrements as indecent waste and as fertilising manure was predestined to mirror concepts of imitation, and lead to a reconsideration of the general relation of artworks to the products of nature.

Indecency-the polar opposite of propriety, appropriateness, respectability, decorum-has played a ... more Indecency-the polar opposite of propriety, appropriateness, respectability, decorum-has played a central role in our understanding of Early Modern cultural norms since the beginning of art history as an academic field in the nineteenth century. Accordingly, the concept of indecency was fundamental to historical and contemporary discourses that attempted to balance social limits on indecorous behaviour and images. At the same time, the appeal of such visual imagery, the attraction of graphic depictions of bodies and their actions, resulted in conflicting responses on the part of viewers. Historically, decency and indecency played defining roles in both the idea of the 'Renaissance' and its characteristics. The nineteenth-century view of this period-notably shaped by Jacob Burckhardt and his Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)-not surprisingly saw the Renaissance as the birthplace of modern individualism, and with it ideas of the idealised, the classical, 'clean' beauty, and striving for grace. 1 Since the 1950s, the idea of the European Renaissance north and south of the Alps has expanded to include the struggle between decorous and indecorous elements, a fact acknowledged within art history, cultural studies, and philology following Eugenio Battisti's L'Antirinascimento ('The Anti-Renaissance', 1964), the groundbreaking work of Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World (1965, English translation 1984), and the general reassessment of sixteenth-century Mannerism. 2 The alleged individualism of Renaissance men and women led Stephen Greenblatt (Renaissance Self-Fashioning, 1980) and the large field of studies addressing selffashioning to acknowledge that being socially improper or indecent had become, in fact, equally important to individualism for Early Modern society and courts.

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The essay reads Ghiberti’s text – traditionally considered as being the outcome of a genuinely ‘F... more The essay reads Ghiberti’s text – traditionally considered as being the outcome of a genuinely ‘Florentine Renaissance’ – primarily as resulting in the author’s mobility and his experience, abroad. Following the idea of an ‘epistemology of traveling’, it is argued that the artist was not only confronted with new information while traveling, but that he was only able to conceive certain theoretical categories and structure artistic activity by comparison with the heterogeneous knowledge and modes of thinking which he experienced outside of his patria. To pursue these ideas, the study considers three main aspects: (1.) an examination of Ghiberti’s travel itineraries; (2.) the Commentarii’s dealing with other places in relation to Florence, and – more generally – with the topic of mobility; and (3.) a critical revision of art historical scholarship on Ghiberti, focusing on its usage of concepts such as the artistic ‘influence’, as well as the relation of stylistic arguments on the one and the interpretation of sources on the other hand. These analyses demonstrate that the artist’s theoretical considerations of space and distance are intrinsically linked to operations of Ghiberti pratico, but they also shed new light on the genesis of the Commentarii: the treatise-like text is, in fact, a result of the elderly author’s immobility, and although it seems to be a vehicle of transferring knowledge, the manuscript itself turned out to have a limited, local impact and resonance.

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detto il Parmigianino, Madonna con i/ Bambino, santa Margherita e a/tri santi, particolare, Bolog... more detto il Parmigianino, Madonna con i/ Bambino, santa Margherita e a/tri santi, particolare, Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale, inv. 588. G im-gio Vasari, durante lIn viaggio ehe, ncl 1530, ]0 avr ebbe dovllto eo ndurre da Pisa all a natia Arezzo, si vid e aecidenta]mente eostretto, eom e narra nclla slia alitobiograFia, a eo mpi ere un 'ampi a dev iazione verso «le montagn e di Modena e Bo logna» I , per via degli eventi belliei ehe stavano eolpenelo in quel momento il territorio toseano. Sempre stando alla narrazione autobiografiea elell 'aretino -tllttavia non ve rifi eabile in altre fonti -, proprio nel eapoluogo emi liano il giovane artista sosta alcune setti mane parteeipando anehe all 'a ll estimento degli apparati effim eri Ü1Jla] zati in oeeasion eI eil ' ineoronazione di Carl o V, eclebrata iI 24 febbraio 15 30 2 . Non e p ossibi] e stabilire in ehe misura il eo nfronto eo n I'ambiente e la tradizione artisti ea loea le influenza Vasari ehe, fino ad all or a, aveva av uto la possibilita elj visitare so lamente le eitta di Arezzo, Firenze e Pisa . Infor mazioni pill elettagliate provengono inveee dal resoeonto elel suo seeonelo soggio rno aBologna, dove I'aretino sosta alcuni m esi, tra iI 1539 e il 1540, per espletare I' importante eommi ssion e eleIla deeorazione ne l refettorio de i monastero di San Mi che Ie in Boseo. Vasari, ehe nel frattempo aveva perfezionato i propri studi a Roma e ehe poteva gia vantare diverse eommi sioni ottenute in Toseana -grazie sopr attutto al suo influente protetto re, il eluea Alessanelro ele' Medi ei -, elimostra questa vo lta grand e interesse per il eontesto ei l patrimonio ar ti sti eo loeale, tanto da eledi earsi aHa visita eli «tutte le pill famose opere di pittllra ehe fussero in quella eitta, eli Bolognesi e eI'altri »3 prima aneora di iniziare i lavori a San Miehcle in Boseo.

E IL RAPPORTO TRA STILKRITIKE QUELLENKRITIK ra gli storiei delI' arte ehe all'inizio del XX seeol... more E IL RAPPORTO TRA STILKRITIKE QUELLENKRITIK ra gli storiei delI' arte ehe all'inizio del XX seeolo si sono dedieati al corp us dei disegni di Miehelangelo -Bernard Berenson, Emil Jaeobsen, Fritz Knapp, H enry T hode e alcuni altri -earl Frey (fi g. 1) potrebbe essere un iversalm ente definito un rappresentante assai improbabile della eerehia dei Kunstkenner.! valutazione dovuta solo in minima parte al fa tto ehe del suo corpus di disegni di M iehelangelo non useirono ehe i prim i tre volumi (un quarto venne pubblieato postumo da Knapp sulla base dellavoro preparatorio di Frey). 2 Piuttosto , l'opinione ehe, benehe per lui si dovesse nominalmente parlare d i «uno sto rieo dell' arte uffieiale», le sue posizioni di eritiea dell o stile fossero da menzionare solo a ti tolo di Kuriosum (come diehiarava Geo rg D ehio nel 1901 ),3 fu espressa in modi divers i mentre egli era aneora in vita: gia nel 1890, ad 1. 11 p rese nte cont ribU(o e legaro a un pi u ampio progetro di ri ce rca ded ica ro all a persona di Carl (0, spesso, Karl ) Frey nel l'am bi ro dell a discuss io ne sull ' impostazione e i p rocedimen ti dell a Kunstwissenschaft ve rso il 1880-1920. Per la prima fase degli stlld i su M ichel ange lo in lingua tedesca cfr. da ultimo Colo M aurer, «Kunstforschers», Connoisseurs und die Zuschreibung von Zeichnungen an Michelangelo. Wissenschaftssprache, Institutionen und Traditionen (J 836-1953), in Michelangelo als Zeichner, a cu ra di C laudi a Ech inger-Maurach , Achim C nann e Joachim Poeschke, M ünster 201 3, pp. 51-72 (in part. su Frey pp. 59-60); sul ruolo d i Michel angelo per i tedeschi: Joseph l morde, Michelangelo Deutsch!, Berlin o 2009. Su Frey cfr. i numeros i necrologi (ad es. Adolf Behne, Karl Frey t, in «U nterhaltllngsbeilage der Tägli chen Run dschau », XXXVI I, 19 17, pp. 266-267; H ans Mackowsky, Karl Frey t 11. März 1917, in «Repertori u m fü r Kunstwisse nschaft», XL, 19 17, pp. 232-247; Ceo rg G ro nau, Über Carl Frey als Forscher, in «Kunstch ro ni b, n.s., XXVlll, 19 17, coll. 305-308), e soprattutto, a tu tt'oggi, l re ne Hueck, ArchivJorschungen zu einer Geschichte der italienischen Kunst. Carl Friedrich von Rumohr, Johannes Gaye, Kar! Frey, in Storia dell'arte e politica culturale intorno al 1900: La Jondazione dell'fstituto Germanico di Storia dell'Arte di Firenze, atti dei convegno (F irenze, 2 1-24 maggio 1997), a cura di Max Seidel, Ve nezia 1999, pp. 11 8-129. D opo la stesura dei p rese nte saggio e usciro ino ltre il co ntribu ro di M agdal ena Bushart, «Mit geerbt». Herman-Walther Freys kunsthistorische Netzwerke, in Herman-Walther Frey: Ministerialrat, Wissenschaftler, Netzwerker. NS-Hochschulpolitik und die Folgen, a ClI ra di M ichae l C ustodi s, M ünster -N ew Yo rk 20 14, pp. 67-90, in part. pp. 69-71. Le citaz io ni dal tedesco, dove non altrimenti indi caro, so no rradotte da O rtensia Martin ez Fuci ni . 2. Carl Frey, Die Handzeichnungen Michelagniolos Buonarroti, 3 vo ll. , Berlin o 1909-11 . Cfr. Frirz Kn app, Die Handzeichnungen Michelagniolos Buonarroti. Nachtrag zu den von Karl Frey t herausgegebenen drei Bänden, 2 vo ll. , Berlino 1925. 3 . Georg D ehio e G ustav Fri edri ch vo n Bezold , Die kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes. Historisch und systematisch dargestellt, 8 vo ll. , Sroccarda 1887-190 I , vol. 11 , 190 I , p. 9.

The book is divided into two main parts, preceded by an introduction which foregrounds the histor... more The book is divided into two main parts, preceded by an introduction which foregrounds the historiographical treatment of Vasari’s frescos and his Ragionamenti in order to exemplify how 20th-century methodological theories and concepts concerning the question of allegory and hermeneutics are related to the analyses of Cinquecento written sources.
Part One is dedicated to the creation, use and immediate reception of the new apartments in the Palazzo Vecchio. By drawing on a rich number of published and unpublished visual and written sources, I reconstruct and analyze the political context, the structures and pragmatic working steps of Vasari’s workshop, the role of figures such as the so-called "iconographical advisor", the intended public and the immediate reception of the rooms. By doing so, I show how the planning was determined not by an initial invention of the "program", but by consecutive decisions, the preference of pictorial over conceptual solutions, improvisations, and sometimes even misunderstandings. While considering aspects such as the "private" and the "public" in settings such as the ducal Palazzo Vecchio, I argue that the frescos and ceiling paintings favor spontaneous discoveries and that they evoke interpretations based on visual analogies rather than forcing the beholder to recall historical and mythographic knowledge available only to learned men. However, this mode of "light" reading does not necessarily prevent the mediation of pro-medicean messages in the new rooms of the Palazzo Vecchio. This is, as I demonstrate, partly due to the artistic re-use of inventions and designs: pragmatic ways to quickly produce decorations on a monumental scale, but which at the same time create a recognizable visual repertoire and symbolic pattern to represent and glorify a patron.
Part Two begins by reconsidering and revising the genesis, dating and authorship of the Ragionamenti, a text that is partially preserved in a manuscript and that was published only posthumously in 1588, fourteen years after Vasari’s death. The following chapters systematically investigate how descriptions of artworks, similar to those in the Ragionamenti, became increasingly more frequent over the course of the second half of the Cinquecento and the early 17th century, and I analyze and differentiate the literary genres, traditions and rhetorical modes of these image-related texts in the early modern period. I argue that the way in which explanations for paintings and painted allegories are suggested in such texts recall verbal practices of the artistic discourse, and by doing so, they bear witness to either the application of hermeneutical methods for the interpretation of images, or to poetic contemplations – the latter being linked rather to aesthetic appreciation and ekphrastic traditions than to ancient and medieval concepts of allegorical readings. That an increasing number of descriptions of artworks were published in the decades leading up to the Baroque has two possible explanations, both of which have origins in ancient rhetorical writings: First, the understanding that learned, political, or other meanings of artworks can not only be transmitted, but above all be determined through texts. Second, that the fame of artworks and artists depends on written texts (an idea that Vasari, who started to draft his Ragionamenti in which he glorifies his own paintings several years before he wrote his autobiography, knew best).
After all, as the final chapter and the conclusion of the book summarize, the Cinquecento established a vivid written discourse on the arts that even engendered the writing of paratexts to paratexts: descriptions of artworks that required responses, to which other publications – but also paintings – answered yet again. Such texts therefore did not simply promote artworks, but helped to create a new way to reflect upon images’ meanings, and encouraged an artistic discourse – and by doing so, they shaped the way in which art and iconography has been perceived from the Cinquecento onwards.

The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the ... more The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the European Early Modern period that coincided with the establishment of which images of the body were to be considered ʻdecentʼ and representable, and which disapproved, censored, or prohibited. Simultaneously, artists and the public became increasingly interested in the depiction of specific body parts or excretions. This book explores the concept of indecency and its relation to the human body across drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and texts. The ten essays investigate questions raised by such objects about practices and social norms regarding the body, and they look at the particular function of those artworks within this discourse. The heterogeneous media, genres, and historical contexts north and south of the Alps studied by the authors demonstrate how the alleged indecency clashed with artistic intentions and challenges traditional paradigms of the historiography of Early Modern visual culture.

Lorenzo Ghiberti fu attivo negli anni cruciali del passaggio tra la tradizione artistica medieval... more Lorenzo Ghiberti fu attivo negli anni cruciali del passaggio tra la tradizione artistica medievale e il periodo storico che oggi chiamiamo «Rinascimento». Leggendo le riflessioni teoriche contenute nei suoi Commentarii, si comprende quanto la rivalutazione dell’antichità classica, i nuovi sviluppi scientifici e un’osservazione più assidua della natura abbiano contribuito a mutare drasticamente sia i modi di produzione, che la ricezione delle opere d’arte. Ghiberti non si limitò a trasmettere questo ampio bagaglio conoscitivo agli artefici che frequentarono la sua bottega fiorentina (tra questi, molti degli artisti più promettenti della nuova generazione). Ghiberti fu anche il primo artista moderno dotato di una coscienza storico-critica. I Commentarii contengono il primo significativo resoconto storico moderno sulle arti, attento agli svolgimenti stilistici e alla filiazione delle diverse generazioni artistiche. Il presente volume indaga la genesi e il contenuto teorico dei Commentarii in relazione alle coeve pratiche artistiche e alla ricezione del pensiero di Ghiberti. Così facendo, porta all’attenzione del lettore problemi e domande che sono centrali per comprendere la trasformazione delle arti nel Quattrocento, e quell’ampio fenomeno culturale ad essa legato che è l’emersione della coscienza intellettuale dell’artista moderno.

Between Continuity and Innovation * Among several friends, colleagues and external reviewers who ... more Between Continuity and Innovation * Among several friends, colleagues and external reviewers who have commented on this paper, I wish to thank especially Robert Brennan for his critical reading and considerate revision of my text. It goes without saying that for any remaining inconsistencies and other errors I alone am responsible. 1 Cf.-purely exemplary-the overview and problematization of older and more recent research positions in Oy-Marra 2011; for more on this question, see the second section of this essay, which deals with historiography. 2 'Io ho messo in opera le figure altre volte lodate da loro, e songli infinitamente piacciute: se ora gli dispiacciono e non le lodano, che ne posso io?'; Vasari 1966-1997, III, 610. On Vasari's critique of artistic repetition in the Vite in comparison with his own practice, see Jonietz 2010, pp. 173-175.

This essay explores depictions and descriptions of bodily excretion in light of theories of creat... more This essay explores depictions and descriptions of bodily excretion in light of theories of creativity and artistic practices. References to physical effluxes and excretions by early seventeenth-century Northern painters, I argue, pursue sixteenth-century concepts which connect lower body parts and physical activities to visual perception and human production. The visual arts were inclined to reflect on such ideas not only because of ubiquitous metaphors comparing the absorption of intellectual matter and their subsequent mental digestion to the conversion of food, but also because waste products had a fundamental role in artist's workshops. The dual quality of excrements as indecent waste and as fertilising manure was predestined to mirror concepts of imitation, and lead to a reconsideration of the general relation of artworks to the products of nature.

Indecency-the polar opposite of propriety, appropriateness, respectability, decorum-has played a ... more Indecency-the polar opposite of propriety, appropriateness, respectability, decorum-has played a central role in our understanding of Early Modern cultural norms since the beginning of art history as an academic field in the nineteenth century. Accordingly, the concept of indecency was fundamental to historical and contemporary discourses that attempted to balance social limits on indecorous behaviour and images. At the same time, the appeal of such visual imagery, the attraction of graphic depictions of bodies and their actions, resulted in conflicting responses on the part of viewers. Historically, decency and indecency played defining roles in both the idea of the 'Renaissance' and its characteristics. The nineteenth-century view of this period-notably shaped by Jacob Burckhardt and his Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)-not surprisingly saw the Renaissance as the birthplace of modern individualism, and with it ideas of the idealised, the classical, 'clean' beauty, and striving for grace. 1 Since the 1950s, the idea of the European Renaissance north and south of the Alps has expanded to include the struggle between decorous and indecorous elements, a fact acknowledged within art history, cultural studies, and philology following Eugenio Battisti's L'Antirinascimento ('The Anti-Renaissance', 1964), the groundbreaking work of Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World (1965, English translation 1984), and the general reassessment of sixteenth-century Mannerism. 2 The alleged individualism of Renaissance men and women led Stephen Greenblatt (Renaissance Self-Fashioning, 1980) and the large field of studies addressing selffashioning to acknowledge that being socially improper or indecent had become, in fact, equally important to individualism for Early Modern society and courts.

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The essay reads Ghiberti’s text – traditionally considered as being the outcome of a genuinely ‘F... more The essay reads Ghiberti’s text – traditionally considered as being the outcome of a genuinely ‘Florentine Renaissance’ – primarily as resulting in the author’s mobility and his experience, abroad. Following the idea of an ‘epistemology of traveling’, it is argued that the artist was not only confronted with new information while traveling, but that he was only able to conceive certain theoretical categories and structure artistic activity by comparison with the heterogeneous knowledge and modes of thinking which he experienced outside of his patria. To pursue these ideas, the study considers three main aspects: (1.) an examination of Ghiberti’s travel itineraries; (2.) the Commentarii’s dealing with other places in relation to Florence, and – more generally – with the topic of mobility; and (3.) a critical revision of art historical scholarship on Ghiberti, focusing on its usage of concepts such as the artistic ‘influence’, as well as the relation of stylistic arguments on the one and the interpretation of sources on the other hand. These analyses demonstrate that the artist’s theoretical considerations of space and distance are intrinsically linked to operations of Ghiberti pratico, but they also shed new light on the genesis of the Commentarii: the treatise-like text is, in fact, a result of the elderly author’s immobility, and although it seems to be a vehicle of transferring knowledge, the manuscript itself turned out to have a limited, local impact and resonance.

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detto il Parmigianino, Madonna con i/ Bambino, santa Margherita e a/tri santi, particolare, Bolog... more detto il Parmigianino, Madonna con i/ Bambino, santa Margherita e a/tri santi, particolare, Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale, inv. 588. G im-gio Vasari, durante lIn viaggio ehe, ncl 1530, ]0 avr ebbe dovllto eo ndurre da Pisa all a natia Arezzo, si vid e aecidenta]mente eostretto, eom e narra nclla slia alitobiograFia, a eo mpi ere un 'ampi a dev iazione verso «le montagn e di Modena e Bo logna» I , per via degli eventi belliei ehe stavano eolpenelo in quel momento il territorio toseano. Sempre stando alla narrazione autobiografiea elell 'aretino -tllttavia non ve rifi eabile in altre fonti -, proprio nel eapoluogo emi liano il giovane artista sosta alcune setti mane parteeipando anehe all 'a ll estimento degli apparati effim eri Ü1Jla] zati in oeeasion eI eil ' ineoronazione di Carl o V, eclebrata iI 24 febbraio 15 30 2 . Non e p ossibi] e stabilire in ehe misura il eo nfronto eo n I'ambiente e la tradizione artisti ea loea le influenza Vasari ehe, fino ad all or a, aveva av uto la possibilita elj visitare so lamente le eitta di Arezzo, Firenze e Pisa . Infor mazioni pill elettagliate provengono inveee dal resoeonto elel suo seeonelo soggio rno aBologna, dove I'aretino sosta alcuni m esi, tra iI 1539 e il 1540, per espletare I' importante eommi ssion e eleIla deeorazione ne l refettorio de i monastero di San Mi che Ie in Boseo. Vasari, ehe nel frattempo aveva perfezionato i propri studi a Roma e ehe poteva gia vantare diverse eommi sioni ottenute in Toseana -grazie sopr attutto al suo influente protetto re, il eluea Alessanelro ele' Medi ei -, elimostra questa vo lta grand e interesse per il eontesto ei l patrimonio ar ti sti eo loeale, tanto da eledi earsi aHa visita eli «tutte le pill famose opere di pittllra ehe fussero in quella eitta, eli Bolognesi e eI'altri »3 prima aneora di iniziare i lavori a San Miehcle in Boseo.

E IL RAPPORTO TRA STILKRITIKE QUELLENKRITIK ra gli storiei delI' arte ehe all'inizio del XX seeol... more E IL RAPPORTO TRA STILKRITIKE QUELLENKRITIK ra gli storiei delI' arte ehe all'inizio del XX seeolo si sono dedieati al corp us dei disegni di Miehelangelo -Bernard Berenson, Emil Jaeobsen, Fritz Knapp, H enry T hode e alcuni altri -earl Frey (fi g. 1) potrebbe essere un iversalm ente definito un rappresentante assai improbabile della eerehia dei Kunstkenner.! valutazione dovuta solo in minima parte al fa tto ehe del suo corpus di disegni di M iehelangelo non useirono ehe i prim i tre volumi (un quarto venne pubblieato postumo da Knapp sulla base dellavoro preparatorio di Frey). 2 Piuttosto , l'opinione ehe, benehe per lui si dovesse nominalmente parlare d i «uno sto rieo dell' arte uffieiale», le sue posizioni di eritiea dell o stile fossero da menzionare solo a ti tolo di Kuriosum (come diehiarava Geo rg D ehio nel 1901 ),3 fu espressa in modi divers i mentre egli era aneora in vita: gia nel 1890, ad 1. 11 p rese nte cont ribU(o e legaro a un pi u ampio progetro di ri ce rca ded ica ro all a persona di Carl (0, spesso, Karl ) Frey nel l'am bi ro dell a discuss io ne sull ' impostazione e i p rocedimen ti dell a Kunstwissenschaft ve rso il 1880-1920. Per la prima fase degli stlld i su M ichel ange lo in lingua tedesca cfr. da ultimo Colo M aurer, «Kunstforschers», Connoisseurs und die Zuschreibung von Zeichnungen an Michelangelo. Wissenschaftssprache, Institutionen und Traditionen (J 836-1953), in Michelangelo als Zeichner, a cu ra di C laudi a Ech inger-Maurach , Achim C nann e Joachim Poeschke, M ünster 201 3, pp. 51-72 (in part. su Frey pp. 59-60); sul ruolo d i Michel angelo per i tedeschi: Joseph l morde, Michelangelo Deutsch!, Berlin o 2009. Su Frey cfr. i numeros i necrologi (ad es. Adolf Behne, Karl Frey t, in «U nterhaltllngsbeilage der Tägli chen Run dschau », XXXVI I, 19 17, pp. 266-267; H ans Mackowsky, Karl Frey t 11. März 1917, in «Repertori u m fü r Kunstwisse nschaft», XL, 19 17, pp. 232-247; Ceo rg G ro nau, Über Carl Frey als Forscher, in «Kunstch ro ni b, n.s., XXVlll, 19 17, coll. 305-308), e soprattutto, a tu tt'oggi, l re ne Hueck, ArchivJorschungen zu einer Geschichte der italienischen Kunst. Carl Friedrich von Rumohr, Johannes Gaye, Kar! Frey, in Storia dell'arte e politica culturale intorno al 1900: La Jondazione dell'fstituto Germanico di Storia dell'Arte di Firenze, atti dei convegno (F irenze, 2 1-24 maggio 1997), a cura di Max Seidel, Ve nezia 1999, pp. 11 8-129. D opo la stesura dei p rese nte saggio e usciro ino ltre il co ntribu ro di M agdal ena Bushart, «Mit geerbt». Herman-Walther Freys kunsthistorische Netzwerke, in Herman-Walther Frey: Ministerialrat, Wissenschaftler, Netzwerker. NS-Hochschulpolitik und die Folgen, a ClI ra di M ichae l C ustodi s, M ünster -N ew Yo rk 20 14, pp. 67-90, in part. pp. 69-71. Le citaz io ni dal tedesco, dove non altrimenti indi caro, so no rradotte da O rtensia Martin ez Fuci ni . 2. Carl Frey, Die Handzeichnungen Michelagniolos Buonarroti, 3 vo ll. , Berlin o 1909-11 . Cfr. Frirz Kn app, Die Handzeichnungen Michelagniolos Buonarroti. Nachtrag zu den von Karl Frey t herausgegebenen drei Bänden, 2 vo ll. , Berlino 1925. 3 . Georg D ehio e G ustav Fri edri ch vo n Bezold , Die kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes. Historisch und systematisch dargestellt, 8 vo ll. , Sroccarda 1887-190 I , vol. 11 , 190 I , p. 9.

P assando in rassegna le prime illustrazioni a stampa della Tribuna, si è portati a credere che, ... more P assando in rassegna le prime illustrazioni a stampa della Tribuna, si è portati a credere che, dal tardo Settecento in poi, gli osservatori avessero poco interesse per l'elemento decorativo più prezioso dell'intera stanza, cioè il ricco ornamento del soffitto della cupola . Chi raffronti le incisioni, acqueforti e litografie, noterà che il numero e la grandezza delle conchiglie di Pinctada margaritifera, provenienti dall'oceano Indo-Pacifico, variano in quasi tutte le riproduzioni, modificando contestualmente l'effetto visivo generale dell'ambiente. Come nelle due illustrazioni esemplari del primo Ottocento, anche nel famoso e assai affidabile disegno del visitatore sir Roger Newdigate, la superficie della cupola sembra più scura del vero, almeno per lo spettatore odierno, abituato all'illuminazione artificiale, che rifrange la luce nelle migliaia di conche di madreperla come in una miriade di piccole fonti luminose.

Seit der Zeit um 1400 -genauer gesagt, seit dem Jahr 1397wird den Betrachtern eines ephemeren App... more Seit der Zeit um 1400 -genauer gesagt, seit dem Jahr 1397wird den Betrachtern eines ephemeren Apparats in Empoli am Tag des Corpus Domini alljährlich eine Parodie der ihnen vertrauten Regeln der Bewegung von Masse dargeboten. Der besondere Reiz und Witz des Volo dei Ciuco, dem ,Flug' eines an einer Seil rolle befestigten Esels über die Piazza Farinata degli Uberti, beruht dabei weniger auf der anatomischen Untauglichkeit als auf der traditionellen Konnotation des Tieres: Denn in Empoli wird gerade nicht etwa das in mehreren europäischen Sprachen redensartiich bekannte Adynaton des "Fliegenden Schweines" (ital. "Porci con le ali", engl. "Flying pigs") umgesetzt, also einem bereits wegen seiner enormen Fettrnasse zum Fliegen untauglich scheinenden Tier Flügel verliehen. Das inszenierte Wunder besticht hier vielmehr durch die Paradoxie, daß ein konventionell zur Bewegung schwerer Lasten eingesetztes und traditionell als störrisch charakterisiertes, also sich in seinem Bewegungsfluß widerständig verhaltendes Tier in einen sich leicht und mühelos über der Piazza bewegenden uccello verwandelt wird (ein Vergleich, den im frühen Cinquecento der Dichter Giovanni Francesco Bini anstellt).1 Ähnlich der widersinnigen Verkehrung der Regeln des Lastentransports im toskanischen Sprichwort "Mettere il carro innanzi a' buoi"2 führen die Empolesen also eine kategorische Unmöglichkeit vor Augen, eine Absurdität, die sich (wie etwa Lorenzo Lippi später anmerken wird) allein Verrückte im Geiste ausmalen würden. 3

Leon Battista Albertis Empfehlung im dritten Buch seines Traktats De Pictura, dass sich Maler hum... more Leon Battista Albertis Empfehlung im dritten Buch seines Traktats De Pictura, dass sich Maler humanistischen Gelehrten zuwenden und ihres Kenntnisreichtums bedienen sollen, um sich bei der »compositio einer Historie« und der Bilderfindung (inventio) zu behelfen, muss häufig als Argument für ein historisches Missverständnis der Kunstwissenschaft herhalten: In dem Ratschlag sei demnach das Fundament einer späteren Organisationsform höfischer Kunstproduktion zu erkennen, in der dem Künstler und einem beteiligten »iconographical adviser« fixe Rollen zuzuordnen wären. 1 Salvatore Settis etwa hat dieses Konzept, in welchem dem Künstler ein in aller Ausführlichkeit elaboriertes ikonographisches Programm vorgesetzt worden wäre, dessen malerische Umsetzung im Grunde seine alleinige Aufgabe gewesen sei, für das Quattro-und frühe Cinquecento in das lineare Rhetorikschema inventio (Auftraggeber), dispositio (Berater) und compositio (Künstler) eingepasst; mit inventio meint er an dieser Stelle die Themenwahl, mit dispositio die textbasierte Zusammenstellung der mythologischen oder historischen Stoffe, die Entwicklung von Allegorien, die Auswahl passender Attribute etc., und mit compositio die Umsetzung der textuellen

degli Italiani (2015) http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/domenico-poggini\_(Dizionario-Biografico... more degli Italiani (2015) http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/domenico-poggini_(Dizionario-Biografico) di Fabian Jonietz POGGINI, Domenico. -Nacque a Firenze il 24 luglio 1520 (Firenze, Archivio dell'Opera di S. Maria del Fiore, Registri battesimali, Maschi, 8, c. 160r), da Michele di Pagolo Poggini; suo fratello maggiore, Giampaolo, fu un medaglista.

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Cat. nos. 103, 104, 116, 119, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125 & 127, in: Bastian Eclercy (ed.): Maniera. Pontormo, Bronzino and Medici Florence. Exh. Frankfurt, Städel Museum, February 24 – June 5, 2016. Munich, London & New York: Prestel 2016, pp. 234–35, 258–59, 262–69, 272–75 & 278–79

Cat. nos. 170, 183, 184, 186, 188 & short essay "Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574)", in: Katharina Chrubasik, Annamaria Giusti, Bernd Roeck & Gerhard Wolf (eds:): Florenz! Exh.-cat. Bonn, Bundeskunsthalle, November 22, 2013 – March 9, 2014. Munich: Hirmer 2013, pp. 263 & 272–75

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Workshop onlIne organIzzazIone scIentIfIca monIca latella stefano pIerguIdI katharIne stahlbuhk b... more Workshop onlIne organIzzazIone scIentIfIca monIca latella stefano pIerguIdI katharIne stahlbuhk bIblIotheca hertzIana IstItuto max planck per la storIa dell'arte bIblIotheca hertzIana-IstItuto max planck per la storIa dell'arte Via Gregoriana, 30 00187 Roma www.biblhertz.it contattI mara freIberg sImmen

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Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment' (1536-1540) was intentionally made on an inclined wall: an unusu... more Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment' (1536-1540) was intentionally made on an inclined wall: an unusual, laborious preparation which modern art history has discussed almost exclusively in terms of the perspectival perception of the beholder. Taking as a point of departure Vasari's reasoning that the wall is actually leaning forward "in order that no dust (polvere) might be able to settle upon it," this paper contextualizes the question of such small dust particles in relation to a discourse on the visibility, preservation and durability of artworks in the early modern period. It suggests that the fastidious preparation for the fresco in the Sistine Chapel is in fact very much indebted to the artist's struggle to master the technique of mural painting.
Scholars have long noted Michelangelo's technical difficulties during his work on the ceiling decoration (1508-1512), which led to immediate damage and to a change in painterly technique in the course of execution. A second report by Vasari ‒ dealing with Sebastiano del Piombo's proposal to change the technique for painting the 'Last Judgment' ‒ is confirmed by technical analyses and is intrinsically linked to the discussion of durability. This paper suggests that Vasari's special mention of dust is, on the one hand, related to actual concerns about the effect of solid aerosols on artworks, a conservation problem resolved in the Cinquecento in various ways: in the case of the Sistine Chapel and other liturgical spaces, the office of a cleaner or de-duster of the mural paintings was created. On the other hand, Vasari's phrasing is indebted to frequent considerations that material objects necessarily "turn into dust" just like any other form of life. These issues, therefore, not only evoke ideas about the "life" and "death" of artworks. They also raise the question of how to gain immortality or an afterlife, a theme epitomized in the subject of Michelangelo's fresco in the Sistine Chapel: as happens with people, art can withstand oblivion independently from its material condition, and thus overcome the inevitable destruction by dust and time.

4, Raum 033 ECTS: 1.5 (Pflichtbereich ICS / Wahlpflichtbereich SLS und GS) Sprache: Deutsch, Inpu... more 4, Raum 033 ECTS: 1.5 (Pflichtbereich ICS / Wahlpflichtbereich SLS und GS) Sprache: Deutsch, Inputs könne auch auf Englisch erfolgen Anmeldung: Anmeldung mit kurzer Ausführung des eigenen Interesses am Thema bis 20.03.2019 an pascale.schild@wbkolleg.unibe.ch und und (falls nötig) über KSL: https://www.ksl.unibe.ch/ (Login mit UniBe-Account, Suche mit Titel)

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