Francesco del cossa biography of abraham
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Pieces of March
I’ve never seen them in person, but the celebrated frescoes by Francesco del Cossa representing March, April and May in the Room of the Months at the Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara have still captivated me for years. They were painted by del Cossa in 1469-70 at the behest of Borso d’Este, the Duke of Modena and Ferrara, who is featured prominently in typical Renaissance fashion. The complex astrological and classical schemes in the murals keep me guessing, but it’s the details that keep me looking. Let’s look at March as a case in point.
Francesco del Cossa, Allegory of March: Triumph of Minerva, c. 1469-70, at Palazzo Schifanoia and Web Gallery of Art.
The del Cossa murals have three sections: the gods above, the zodiac in the center, and the d’Este court below–but everyone looks accessible and interesting. In the case of March, triumphant deity Minerva, patroness of learning and crafts, is seated in her chariot surrounded by scholars deep in discussion and craftswomen hard at work (at least some of them–all while beautifully dressed and coiffed). These women–most particularly the Three Fates in the foreground– have received a lot of attention from Renaissance costumers and reenactors: even though
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History of art criticism: Aby Warburg and the origins of iconology
Categories: Works and artists / Disclaimer
In the early twentieth century, Aby Warburg actually inaugurated an important strand of art history: iconology.
Thegreater the strength of the artist, the more accomplished form the predicate has, the weaker that predicate is, the more undeveloped the subject expressed in a periphrasis. So wrote the German art historian Aby Warburg (Hamburg, 1866 - 1929, real name Abraham Moritz Warburg) in 1890, when he was only twenty-four years old, highlighting the limitations of formalist criticism. Warburg was convinced that reducing the analysis of a work of art to a mere formal question was an approach not only limiting but also to be avoided and even despised. Warburg, in fact, believed that images were icons charged with meanings having a close relationship to the culture and memory of a society. Images, in other words, have a history, because an image survives the ages and perpetuates itself through time by following different styles: not by chance, Warburg spoke precisely of Nachleben, or “survival.” There are, for example, repertories that have b
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