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Inventing the Renaissance Putto (Paperback)
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Inventing the Renaissance Putto (Paperback)
Series: Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
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The figure of the putto (often portrayed as a mischievous baby)
made frequent appearances in the art and literature of Renaissance
Italy. Commonly called spiritelli, or sprites, putti embodied a
minor species of demon, in their nature neither good nor bad. They
included natural spirits, animal spirits, and the spirits of sight
and sound, as well as hobgoblin fantasies, bogeys, and the spirits
contained in wine. Among the sensations ascribed to spiritelli were
feelings of love, erotic arousal, and startling frights. After
discussing the many manifestations of the putto-spiritello in
fifteenth-century Italian art and literature, Charles Dempsey
offers parallel interpretations of two works: Botticelli's Mars and
Venus, a painting in which infant Satyr-putti appear as the
panic-inducing spirits of the nightmare, and Politian's Stanze, a
poem in which masked cupids appear to the hero in a deceiving
dream. He concludes with an examination of the function of such
masks in the poetry and public masquerades sponsored by Lorenzo
de'Medici and in Michelangelo's scheme for the decoration of the
Medici Chapel. Throughout, Dempsey advances a larger argument about
the nature of Italian Renaissance art. Rather than simply reviving
classical forms, he says, the art accommodated and fused them
within local, vernacular, and modern Italian traditions, both
literary and pictorial.
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