The chapter addresses Shakespeare's response to the Italian poetics of the Neoplatonic "Idea" that informs a masterful work of art. Tracing the transmission of this idea of the "idea" through Italian art and English literary criticism, it discusses how debates over the artificer's "internal design" (disegno interno) are broached in _L'idea de' pittori (1607) by Federigo Zuccaro and in Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo's seminal treatise on painting, translated into English (1598). This shared critical discourse in Italy and England on the role of disegno, ingegno, and the unfinished. and the debates on ideal beauty and the artist's concetto form a transnational intertext with which Shakespeare's Othello is engaged.
"The Unfinished in Michelangelo and _Othello_"
CORONATO, ROCCO
2017
Abstract
The chapter addresses Shakespeare's response to the Italian poetics of the Neoplatonic "Idea" that informs a masterful work of art. Tracing the transmission of this idea of the "idea" through Italian art and English literary criticism, it discusses how debates over the artificer's "internal design" (disegno interno) are broached in _L'idea de' pittori (1607) by Federigo Zuccaro and in Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo's seminal treatise on painting, translated into English (1598). This shared critical discourse in Italy and England on the role of disegno, ingegno, and the unfinished. and the debates on ideal beauty and the artist's concetto form a transnational intertext with which Shakespeare's Othello is engaged.
Pubblicazioni consigliate
I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
