Sulla fortuna e «sfortuna» critica di Luca Giordano nel Viaje de España di Antonio Ponz

This paper analyzes Antonio Ponz’s critical view towards Luca Giordano’s work. Although anchored in common contemporary disapproval of Baroque, Ponz, in his Viaje de España, seems to assume a vague countertrend position for appreciation of Giordano’s pictorial language, intimately approaching, with...

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Main Author: Paola Setaro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Cádiz 2019-12-01
Series:Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo
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Online Access:https://revistas.uca.es/index.php/cir/article/view/5070
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Summary:This paper analyzes Antonio Ponz’s critical view towards Luca Giordano’s work. Although anchored in common contemporary disapproval of Baroque, Ponz, in his Viaje de España, seems to assume a vague countertrend position for appreciation of Giordano’s pictorial language, intimately approaching, with the painter’s eye, the material and the technique of an artist who will be reconsidered only in the following centuries.
ISSN:2173-0687