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15. Die Skulptur der Renaissance und des Manierismus

  • Ulrike Müller-Hofstede
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Handbuch Rhetorik der Bildenden Künste
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Abstract

The rise of humanism’s studia humanitatis, which superceded older forms of knowledge orders, opened up new doors for reassessing the role of sculpture. Alberti founded his theory of painting on rhetorics in keeping with new trends toward scientific method. Already prior to Alberti, historia - or visual narrative - resorted to rhetorical strategies, as illustrated lucidly in the surviving reliefs that were executed in the 1400/1401 competition for the doors of the Florence Baptistery. A correlation between moral integrity (ethos) and strong pathos suggests that precisely the representation of public statues of saints, heroes and rulers necessitated a complex knowledge of classical standards of decorum. A key issue in the rhetoric orientation of sculpture can also be found in the topic of the likeness of a statue, for example of a death mask or sepulchral monument. The sculptor’s mimetic goal was not only to represent beauty in terms of harmony of proportion and symmetry, but also to imbue them with life and movement with the help of grazia. This harks back to the famous examples in the treatises of ancient rhetorics, which drew on ancient sculptures such as the distorted figure of the discobolus of Myron. In the 16th century it was, above all, the paragone that spurned on the sculptor to achieve the uttermost in his art. Knowledge of the disputation that advanced sculpture to be one of the sister arts and children of “disegno the father” lead to the institutionalisation of the arts.

Abstract

The rise of humanism’s studia humanitatis, which superceded older forms of knowledge orders, opened up new doors for reassessing the role of sculpture. Alberti founded his theory of painting on rhetorics in keeping with new trends toward scientific method. Already prior to Alberti, historia - or visual narrative - resorted to rhetorical strategies, as illustrated lucidly in the surviving reliefs that were executed in the 1400/1401 competition for the doors of the Florence Baptistery. A correlation between moral integrity (ethos) and strong pathos suggests that precisely the representation of public statues of saints, heroes and rulers necessitated a complex knowledge of classical standards of decorum. A key issue in the rhetoric orientation of sculpture can also be found in the topic of the likeness of a statue, for example of a death mask or sepulchral monument. The sculptor’s mimetic goal was not only to represent beauty in terms of harmony of proportion and symmetry, but also to imbue them with life and movement with the help of grazia. This harks back to the famous examples in the treatises of ancient rhetorics, which drew on ancient sculptures such as the distorted figure of the discobolus of Myron. In the 16th century it was, above all, the paragone that spurned on the sculptor to achieve the uttermost in his art. Knowledge of the disputation that advanced sculpture to be one of the sister arts and children of “disegno the father” lead to the institutionalisation of the arts.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Vorwort der Reihenherausgeber V
  3. Inhaltsverzeichnis VII
  4. Abkürzungsverzeichnis XI
  5. 0. Einführung 1
  6. Grundlegung
  7. 1. Ut pictura poesis 45
  8. 2. Die Gattung der Ekphrasis 63
  9. Antike
  10. 3. Künstler und Gesellschaft in der Antike 91
  11. 4. Rhetorik und Kunsttheorie in der Antike 111
  12. 5. Die Rhetorik der griechischen Skulptur 125
  13. Mittelalter
  14. 6. Künstler und Gesellschaft im Mittelalter 151
  15. 7. Kunst, Kunsttheorie und Rhetorik im Mittelalter 169
  16. 8. Rhetoric and Artistry in Early Byzantium 185
  17. 9. Giotto di Bondone 207
  18. Renaissance und Manierismus
  19. 10. Künstler und Gesellschaft in Renaissance und Manierismus 229
  20. 11. Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472): De Pictura 253
  21. 12. Giorgio Vasaris Vite 269
  22. 13. Der Paragone 283
  23. 14. Die Malerei der Renaissance und des Manierismus 313
  24. 15. Die Skulptur der Renaissance und des Manierismus 337
  25. 16. Die Architektur der Renaissance und des Manierismus 367
  26. 17. Die Grafik der Renaissance und des Manierismus 389
  27. Barock und Klassizismus
  28. 18. Künstler und Gesellschaft im Barock 417
  29. 19. Die Kunsttheorie des Barock 435
  30. 20. Die Kunsttheorie des Klassizismus 451
  31. 21. Die Malerei des Barock 471
  32. 22. Barocke Deckenmalerei 495
  33. 23. Die Skulptur des Barock und Rokoko 513
  34. 24. Barockarchitektur und Rhetorik: Das Berliner Schloss 535
  35. 25. Die Allegorie 555
  36. 26. Barocke Thesenblätter 577
  37. 27. Das Erhabene 595
  38. Moderne und Postmoderne
  39. 28. Künstler und Gesellschaft in Moderne und Postmoderne 631
  40. 29. Die Ästhetik 657
  41. 30. Spuren der Rhetorik in romantischen Entwürfen einer Theorie der bildenden Künste 671
  42. 31. Die Gegenwart unter dem Versprechen künftiger Epiphanie. Baudelaire und Apollinaire über die Moderne als sich selbst unbekannte Epoche 691
  43. 32. Die Kunstgeschichte 711
  44. 33. Malerei als politisches Medium: David, Goya, Delacroix, Courbet 729
  45. 34. Die Rhetorik des Denkmals 749
  46. 35. Die Karikatur 773
  47. 36. Zur Rhetorik in der Kunst der Postmoderne 797
  48. Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger 819
  49. Abbildungsnachweise 825
  50. Index 829
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