Andrea del Sarto’s Disputation on the Trinity and the “Sighs of Holy Desire”
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Steven J. Cody
Abstract
Andrea del Sarto’s Disputation on the Trinity (1517) engages with powerful traditions of spiritual learning that can be traced back to St. Augustine’s theological writings. This paper asks how and in what ways Andrea’s altarpiece might belong to such a rich intellectual history. The analysis connects Augustinian notions of desire and reform to the painting’s iconography and to the artist’s composition and treatment of color. This line of inquiry not only has exciting implications for the study of Renaissance altarpieces; it also lays the groundwork for a larger study of Andrea del Sarto and of his contributions to the period’s sense of spiritual reform, broadly conceived.
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Photo Credits: 1 – 4, 6, 7, 11, 12 Scala/Art Resource, NY. – 5, 9, 13 Scala/Ministero per i Beni e la Attività culturali/Art Resource, NY. – 8 Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY. – 10 Alinari/Art Resource, NY.
© 2017 Steven J. Cody, published by De Gruyter
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Aufsätze
- Andrea del Sarto’s Disputation on the Trinity and the “Sighs of Holy Desire”
- Giulio Romano und Andrea Palladio Die Landshuter Residenz Herzog Ludwigs X. und ihre Rezeption in den frühen Palastkonzepten Palladios
- “Framing and Fashioning of Images”: The Pictorial Invention of the Art Lover in Daniel Mytens’s Portrait of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (ca 1618)
- “Must the Arts Suffer from the Progress of Reason?” Four Slave Statues, the 1790 Place des Victoires Debate, and the Urban Monument in Early Revolutionary France
- Die Zukunft der Vergangenheit Richard Oelze (1900 – 1980) and Post-war Reflection
- Buchbesprechungen
- Politik der Evidenz. Öffentliche Bilder als Bilder der Öffentlichkeit im Trecento
- Parergon. Attribut, Material und Fragment in der Bildästhetik des Quattrocento
- I segni nel tempo. Dibujos españoles de los Uffizi
