Outline
David Rosand: “Venetian Aesthetic and the ‘Disegno-Colorito’ Controversy”
1. Florentine Acadaemia delle Arts del Disegno – represented values first formulated in quattrocento Florence
2. New Renaissance artist = valued fame over money, work = liberal, not mechanical, intellectual not material
3. One of Vasari’s greatest contributions = assembling various artists within a single organization
4. Disegno – three “padre” art= architecture, sculpture and painting
a. Florentine artists had no issue with going across mediums so they could paint, sculpture, etc.
a.i. This would have been “illegal” in Venice be exclusive in one thing
5. Venetian architecture paved the way for the emancipation of painting in quattrocento Florence
6. Vasari – practical and theoretical importance of drawing
7. Disegno – provides the measure of progress in the arts from their rebirth with Giotto to the overwhelming teleological achievement of Michelangelo
a. Drawing is viewed as the key to the entire imaginative process, the medium of the painters very thought as well as of its concrete expression
8. The quality of the drawing provides critical measure of the paintings
9. Vasari’s definition of painting – a place the surface of which is covered by fields of colors… bounded by lines… which by virtue of a good drawing of circumscribed lines define the figure.
10. Ducal palace’s frescoes deteriorated because of humidity and salinity of a lagoon paintings on canvases became the new way of painting in Venice
a. Canvas became the tradition, paint with oil medium, apply color in glazes, darker tones over lighter ground, the painter could create a light that seemingly emanate from the depths of the picture itself
b. Panel pictures were still popular, but cabinet pictures for private patrons became popular
b.i. The new technique involved a reversal of priorities and sequence in executions
11. Girogione’s tonalism was different because of the actual texture of paint characters
1. Florentine Acadaemia delle Arts del Disegno – represented values first formulated in quattrocento Florence
2. New Renaissance artist = valued fame over money, work = liberal, not mechanical, intellectual not material
3. One of Vasari’s greatest contributions = assembling various artists within a single organization
4. Disegno – three “padre” art= architecture, sculpture and painting
a. Florentine artists had no issue with going across mediums so they could paint, sculpture, etc.
a.i. This would have been “illegal” in Venice be exclusive in one thing
5. Venetian architecture paved the way for the emancipation of painting in quattrocento Florence
6. Vasari – practical and theoretical importance of drawing
7. Disegno – provides the measure of progress in the arts from their rebirth with Giotto to the overwhelming teleological achievement of Michelangelo
a. Drawing is viewed as the key to the entire imaginative process, the medium of the painters very thought as well as of its concrete expression
8. The quality of the drawing provides critical measure of the paintings
9. Vasari’s definition of painting – a place the surface of which is covered by fields of colors… bounded by lines… which by virtue of a good drawing of circumscribed lines define the figure.
10. Ducal palace’s frescoes deteriorated because of humidity and salinity of a lagoon paintings on canvases became the new way of painting in Venice
a. Canvas became the tradition, paint with oil medium, apply color in glazes, darker tones over lighter ground, the painter could create a light that seemingly emanate from the depths of the picture itself
b. Panel pictures were still popular, but cabinet pictures for private patrons became popular
b.i. The new technique involved a reversal of priorities and sequence in executions
11. Girogione’s tonalism was different because of the actual texture of paint characters