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    STUDIA HISTORIA%20ARTIUM - Issue no. 1 / 2008  
         
  Article:   THE AESTHETIC OF DISEGNO VERSUS THE AESTETICS OF COLORITO: THE POLEMIC VASARI – DOLCE AND THE BECOMING OF THE ART THEORY IN CINQUECENTO / L’ESTHÉTIQUE DU DISEGNO VERSUS L’ESTHÉTIQUE DU COLORITO: LA POLÉMIQUE VASARI-DOL.

Authors:  DAN-EUGEN RAŢIU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Aesthetics of Disegno versus the Aesthetics of Colorito: The Polemic Vasari - Dolce and the Becoming of the Art Theory in Cinquecento. This study analyzes the conflict in the 16th Century between the principles of artistic production and critical judgment, mainly the tensions between the imitation of artistic models and the imitation of nature, the rationality of disegno and the naturalism of colorito, manifested during the polemic of Florentine and Venetian aesthetics. On the one side, this study highlights the aesthetical principles and the progressive model of art history directed by the dialectics of the decadence and Renaissance, formulated by Giorgio Vasari in his major work Vite de’più eccelenti Pittori, Scultori ed Architettori (1550/1568), which are commanding his critical judgments. On the other side, the study points out the original contribution of the Venetian critique, in particular of Lodovico Dolce’s Dialogo della Pittura (1557), which consists not only in coding the practice of Venetian artists like Titian and asserting the primordial role of colorito, but also in a rhetorical foundation of painting different to that operated by Alberti in Florence a century before, and in formulating a “classical” alternative to the mannerist theory concerning the principles of the artistic creation and the relations between painting and nature.

Key-words: aesthetics of disegno, aesthetics of colorito, painting, progress and decadence, rhetoric, Vasari G. (1511-1574), Dolce L. (1508-1568)
 
         
     
         
         
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