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Informationen zum Autor Gabriele Paleotti (1522-1597) was an Italian cardinal and archbishop of Bologna. Paolo Prodi is professor emeritus of modern history at the Università di Bologna, a member of the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, and president of the Italian Giunta Storica Nazionale. William McCuaig is a translator living in Montreal and the author of Carlo Sigonio: The Changing World of the Late Renaissance (Princeton University Press, 1989). Klappentext In the wake of the Counter-Reformation, Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, the archbishop of Bologna, wrote a remarkable treatise on art during a time when the Church feared rampant abuse in the arts. Translated into English here for the first time, Paleotti's Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images argues that art should address a broad audience and explains the painter's responsibility to his spectators. The Discourse is introduced by historian Paolo Prodi, who explains how--even if the archbishop did not succeed in reforming the arts--Paleotti's treatise constituted one last synthesis of art as a reading of creation and salvation history, and "sacred" art as a vehicle of devotion. Zusammenfassung Argues that art should address a broad audience and explains the painter's responsibility to his spectators. This book explains how - even if the archbishop did not succeed in reforming the arts - Paleotti's treatise constituted one last synthesis of art as a reading of creation and salvation history! and "sacred" art as a vehicle of devotion.
