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Drafting characters : action and enactment in Veronese's creative process
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Tagliaferro, Giorgio (2016) Drafting characters : action and enactment in Veronese's creative process. In: Aikema, Bernard and Dalla Costa, Thomas and Marini, Paola, (eds.) Paolo Veronese. Giornate di studio. Venice: Fondazione Giorgio Cini ; lineadacqua, pp. 102-113. ISBN 9788895598536
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Abstract
Although scholars have praised Veronese’s interests in elevating drawing to a self-sufficient medium of expression, there have nonetheless been no explicit attempts to describe his draughtsmanship as an intellectually-engaged practice of the kind conceptualised by Vasari. It is my contention, instead, that Veronese’s corpus of drawings lends itself to be seen as the result of a constant, aware reflection upon the possibilities of representing human experience and behaviour. His work reveals a seemingly incessant exploration of the virtually unlimited expressive potential of the human figure, in poses, gestures, movements and interactions. This exploration is grounded in a ceaseless process of re-elaboration of recurring motifs and ideas that were sometimes reused, sometimes recast or recombined, and which could be adjusted to various subjects. While these drawings were undoubtedly helpful in workshop production, Veronese’s renderings operated as a particularly effective method of investigating visual forms in ever-changing contexts of meaning, and thus exceeded the standard function of being merely preparatory. In this article I argue that Veronese’s studies of figural gestures and postures evolved into an enquiry of the possible mental and moral attitudes of particular human beings in given circumstances, as described by specific narrative sequences.
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History of Art | ||||
Publisher: | Fondazione Giorgio Cini ; lineadacqua | ||||
Place of Publication: | Venice | ||||
ISBN: | 9788895598536 | ||||
Book Title: | Paolo Veronese. Giornate di studio | ||||
Editor: | Aikema, Bernard and Dalla Costa, Thomas and Marini, Paola | ||||
Official Date: | 2016 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 102-113 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Description: | La Fondazione Giorgio Cini, in linea con la una lunga tradizione di studi e di esposizioni dedicati alla figura di Paolo Veronese, ha promosso la pubblicazione degli atti del convegno internazionale Giornate di studio su Paolo Veronese, svoltosi a Verona tra il 26 e il 28 settembre 2014 e voluto come momento di riflessione critica dai curatori della mostra antologica allestita contestualmente al Palazzo della Gran Guardia di Verona. |
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