THURS 28 JAN.: MAKING ART MODERN? VIEWS FROM THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE– Talk by Robert Brennan with a response by Wolf-Dietrich Löhr
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Robert Brennan’s talk investigates concepts of “art” in Italian writings on painting from the fourteenth to the early sixteenth century. Challenging traditional understandings of the Italian Renaissance as a period marked by the emergence of an entirely unprecedented, modern idea of art, it demonstrates the persistence and vitality of the medieval concept of ars throughout this period. These are centuries that witnessed drastic changes in the history of Italian painting, from Giotto’s legendary departure from Byzantine conventions to the invention of linear perspective and the achievements of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. In the eyes of period observers, however, these changes conformed to a large extent with long established, distinctively medieval principles that governed what it meant to “modernize” (in Latin, modernizare) the artes.
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