Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Entombment, Raphael


Title:Entombment
Artist: Raphael
Commsioner: Atlanta Baglioni of Perugia
Location: Family Chapel in San Francesco al Prato, Now in Borghese Gallery

  • Alberti advocates the istoria of painting
    - recalling a momentuous event
  • ingeino : skill of artist vs. intellectual content
  • not fit into stable altarpieces
  • conventions had forced artists to become static
  • shown between lamentation and entombment
  • self-consicous b/c it references history paintings and aesthetic ideals moving toward gallery paintings
  • Circular movement - internal movement in compostion
  • copying a Roman sarcophagus that copies Meleager
  • Direct reference to pagan assertions of competition with ancients
  • Meleager was named by Alberti as the ispiration for history painting
  • Atlanta was Meleager's mother and meleager died - symbolic separation of mother and son (Nargos)
  • Theme of rupture
  • Prep. drawings show gradual shift from tradition
  • movement away from iconic use in art to art as iconic in itself
  • art praised as collectable and becomes a tourist attractions
  • concept of artist as genius
  • taken off altar and moved to Borghese gallery and rome
  • Shift in art as a devotional tool to just art for art's sake
Compare to Michelangelo's Entombment and Titian's Entombment

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