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
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