Poussin and the Poetics of Painting: Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso
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This examines how Poussin cultivated a poetics of painting from the literary culture of his own time, and especially through his response to the work of Torquato Tasso. Tasso's poetic discourses were the most important source for Poussin's theory of painting. The poet's ideas on artistic imitation, novelty, and plot structure and unity, which are exemplified in his epic La Gerusalemme liberata, proved to be fundamental to the artist's conception of...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521833671
ISBN13:9780521833677
Release Date:February 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:308 Pages
Weight:2.11 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 7.3" x 10.1"
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