Oublier la Renaissance, désapprendre l’humanisme : Le premier Baroque entre exploitation des acquis et table rase imaginaire

Art history has traditionally postulated a clear break between, on the one hand, late Mannerism, still dependent on Renaissance and humanistic culture, and, on the other hand, the artistic revolution that inaugurated the Baroque. However, art historians who have carefully studied the work of the mai...

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Main Author: Itay Sapir
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Language:English
Published: UMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA) 2018-02-01
Series:Les Cahiers de Framespa
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/framespa/4553
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description Art history has traditionally postulated a clear break between, on the one hand, late Mannerism, still dependent on Renaissance and humanistic culture, and, on the other hand, the artistic revolution that inaugurated the Baroque. However, art historians who have carefully studied the work of the main protagonist of the latter “revolution” know that Caravaggio, while ostentatiously claiming his indifference to tradition and the absolute novelty of his art, was in fact highly indebted to older artworks he could see first in Lombardy, then in Rome. The tension between continuity and rupture, between that which changes and that which stays the same, has always been one of the principal issues of art historical discussions. This article seeks to revise the common narrative on the birth of the Baroque, avoiding both the myth of the Tabula rasa and that of the Déjà vu. It explains how Caravaggio and those artists considered his followers – particularly Jusepe de Ribera – hoped to keep alive the memory of some important innovations in the art of their predecessors, while at the same time actively forgetting the norms, the rules and the ideals.
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spelling doaj-art-8d29d3bdbd2f4263867cbcefd3fa95622025-08-20T02:47:22ZengUMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA)Les Cahiers de Framespa1760-47612018-02-012610.4000/framespa.4553Oublier la Renaissance, désapprendre l’humanisme : Le premier Baroque entre exploitation des acquis et table rase imaginaireItay SapirArt history has traditionally postulated a clear break between, on the one hand, late Mannerism, still dependent on Renaissance and humanistic culture, and, on the other hand, the artistic revolution that inaugurated the Baroque. However, art historians who have carefully studied the work of the main protagonist of the latter “revolution” know that Caravaggio, while ostentatiously claiming his indifference to tradition and the absolute novelty of his art, was in fact highly indebted to older artworks he could see first in Lombardy, then in Rome. The tension between continuity and rupture, between that which changes and that which stays the same, has always been one of the principal issues of art historical discussions. This article seeks to revise the common narrative on the birth of the Baroque, avoiding both the myth of the Tabula rasa and that of the Déjà vu. It explains how Caravaggio and those artists considered his followers – particularly Jusepe de Ribera – hoped to keep alive the memory of some important innovations in the art of their predecessors, while at the same time actively forgetting the norms, the rules and the ideals.https://journals.openedition.org/framespa/4553CaravaggioRiberaBaroqueMemory and forgetting
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Oublier la Renaissance, désapprendre l’humanisme : Le premier Baroque entre exploitation des acquis et table rase imaginaire
Les Cahiers de Framespa
Caravaggio
Ribera
Baroque
Memory and forgetting
title Oublier la Renaissance, désapprendre l’humanisme : Le premier Baroque entre exploitation des acquis et table rase imaginaire
title_full Oublier la Renaissance, désapprendre l’humanisme : Le premier Baroque entre exploitation des acquis et table rase imaginaire
title_fullStr Oublier la Renaissance, désapprendre l’humanisme : Le premier Baroque entre exploitation des acquis et table rase imaginaire
title_full_unstemmed Oublier la Renaissance, désapprendre l’humanisme : Le premier Baroque entre exploitation des acquis et table rase imaginaire
title_short Oublier la Renaissance, désapprendre l’humanisme : Le premier Baroque entre exploitation des acquis et table rase imaginaire
title_sort oublier la renaissance desapprendre l humanisme le premier baroque entre exploitation des acquis et table rase imaginaire
topic Caravaggio
Ribera
Baroque
Memory and forgetting
url https://journals.openedition.org/framespa/4553
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