Poussin and the Poetics of Painting - Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso

Examines how Poussin cultivated a poetics of painting from the literary culture of his own time.

List of contents

1. 'Ut pictura poetica' - Poussin and the poetics of Tasso; 2. Poussin's Novità; 3. Metaphorical reflections in Echo and Narcissus and Rinaldo and Armida; 4. The critique of Gerusalemme liberata and the visual arts; 5. Poussin, Marino and painting in the Ovidian Age; 6. Poussin, Raphael, and Tasso: the poetics of history painting; 7. Poussin and the Gerusalemme liberata: action into episode, history into myth.

About the author

Jonathan Unglaub is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Brandeis University, Massachusetts. A scholar of Renaissance and Baroque art, he has contributed to The Art Bulletin and The Burlington Magazine, and has received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), the Getty Humanities Center, and the Clark Institute.

Product details

• Authors: Assoc Prof. Jonathan Unglaub, Jonathan Unglaub, Jonathan (Brandeis University Unglaub
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.2014
• EAN: 9781107626744
• ISBN: 978-1-107-62674-4
• No. of pages: 305
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; ART / History / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Paintings and painting