"Gente di ferro e di valore armata". Postille al tema degli Uomini Illustri, e qualche riflessione marginale sulla pittura profana tra Medioevo e Rinascimento
Chapter
Publication Date:
2015
abstract:
The cult of the past is a very common topos not only in the humanistic Quattrocento but also in the Middle
Ages, and it represents a strong propaganda tool in profane art associated with astronomical and moralistic
allegories, frequent in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This essay investigates some profane
themes - linked with contemporary literature - in court art between the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
In particular, it deals with secular cycles of Illustrious Men and Triumphs, following continuity and
transformations from older evidence (often lost) to their presence in proto-humanistic contexts in Italy before
the Quattrocento, when these typical themes are documented everywhere. Furthermore, it discusses
the relationships between images, words and memory; and the propagation of Illustrious Genealogies in
the late Trecento.
Ages, and it represents a strong propaganda tool in profane art associated with astronomical and moralistic
allegories, frequent in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This essay investigates some profane
themes - linked with contemporary literature - in court art between the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
In particular, it deals with secular cycles of Illustrious Men and Triumphs, following continuity and
transformations from older evidence (often lost) to their presence in proto-humanistic contexts in Italy before
the Quattrocento, when these typical themes are documented everywhere. Furthermore, it discusses
the relationships between images, words and memory; and the propagation of Illustrious Genealogies in
the late Trecento.
Iris type:
2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
List of contributors:
Di Simone, Paolo
Book title:
The Survival of the Trecento in the Fifteenth Century (Predella Monografie, 9, 2014)