Art history has long identified what is most striking in the masterpieces of the Golden Age of Italian painting: harmony, the exactness of proportions, the perfect calibration of gestures. Yet the mystery lying at their core remains, and the task to define it rests perhaps on philosophy, rather than art history. After all, philosophy, in the extremely refined fashion of the over-synchretistic Platonism of the time, exerted an enormous influence both on Quattrocento and Renaissance painting. This paper will try to describe, rather than determine, such mystery in terms of a
Rarefaction. Nature, Philosophy, and Ethics: Images of Metaphysical Peace in Venetian Renaissance Painting (1500–1510)
CHIURCO, CARLO
2014-01-01
Abstract
Art history has long identified what is most striking in the masterpieces of the Golden Age of Italian painting: harmony, the exactness of proportions, the perfect calibration of gestures. Yet the mystery lying at their core remains, and the task to define it rests perhaps on philosophy, rather than art history. After all, philosophy, in the extremely refined fashion of the over-synchretistic Platonism of the time, exerted an enormous influence both on Quattrocento and Renaissance painting. This paper will try to describe, rather than determine, such mystery in terms of a
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