• Nuove acquisizioni sulla prima attività romana di Michelangelo Buonarroti connessa con l'Umanesimo dei Pomponiani

    Author(s):
    Flavia De Nicola (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Renaissance / Early Modern Studies, The Renaissance Society of America
    Subject(s):
    Art criticism, Patron and client, Research, Humanism, Art, Italian, Art, Renaissance, Renaissance
    Item Type:
    Online publication
    Tag(s):
    History of Collecting, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Renaissance antiquarianism, Collecting/patronage studies, Italian art, Renaissance art, Renaissance culture
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/zrps-pv35
    Abstract:
    Young Michelangelo Buonarroti’s experience was deeply marked by his cult of Antiquity, reverberated in the creation of artworks such as the Sleeping Cupid and the Bacchus and shared with Raffaele Riario and Jacopo Galli, his patrons during his first stay in Rome (1496-1501). The cardinal-camerlengo Raffaele Riario was an important promoter of the cultural challenge lead by the humanist Giulio Pomponio Leto, founder of the Roman Academy, and his followers: to arouse the glory and the forms of the antique theatre in Christian Rome also through the actual staging of dramas in Latin. Therefore, it is still necessary to re-evaluate the genesis and the essence of Michelangelo’s artworks, which took life from the Ancient and Renaissance literary and philosophical sources cultivated by the artist as also fostered by the Pomponians. It could be also reconsidered, in the historical context of the conflictual condition documented between the cardinal Riario and pope Alexander VI, the so-called “refusal” of the Bacchus caused by the intention to conceal those antiquarian contents of the artwork as they belonged to a sphere which was already judged as subversive and they could then become the suitable excuse to justify the aspire of the Borgias to the cardinal’s properties. We can then understand, this far, that Michelangelo was actively immersed in the reconstructed network of cultural sodalitas connections in the Renaissance Rome, to which he contributed not as a mere executor of admirable works of art, but rather as an all-round intellectual.
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    Pub. URL:
    https://www.bta.it/txt/a0/08/bta00856.html
    Publisher:
    BTA - Bollettino Telematico dell\'Arte
    Pub. Date:
    26 September 2018
    Website:
    https://www.bta.it
    Version:
    ISSN 1127-4883
    Section:
    865
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives

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