A Tale Blazed Through Heaven examines developments in the
representation of the classical tale of Mars, Venus, and Vulcan in
the literature and painting of the Golden Age of Spain
(c.1526-1681). Anchored in close analysis of individual primary
texts, the five chapters that comprise this study assess how poets
and painters breathed new life into the tale inherited from Homer,
Ovid, and others, examining some of the ways in which the story of
Mars, Venus, and Vulcan was disguised, developed, expanded, mocked,
combined with or played off against different subjects, or
otherwise modified in order to pique the interest of successive
generations of readers and viewers. Each chapter discusses what
particular changes and shifts in emphasis reveal about the tale
itself, specific renderings, the aims and intentions of individual
poets and painters, and the wider context of the literary and
visual culture of Early Modern Spain. Discussing a range of poems
by both canonical (Garcilaso de la Vega, Luis de Gongora, Lope de
Vega, etc.) and less well-known writers (Juan de la Cueva, Alonso
de Castillo Solorzano, Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina, etc.), and
culminating in detailed examination of select mythological works by
Philip IV's court painter, Diego Velazquez, this book sheds light
on questions relating to aspects of classical reception in the
Renaissance, the rise of specific poetic styles (epic, mock-epic,
burlesque, etc.), the interplay between the sister arts of poetry
and painting, and the continual process of imitation and invention
that was one of the defining features of the Spanish Golden Age.
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