Arrigo le Velu, Pietro le Fou, Amon le Nain et autres bêtes : autour d'un tableau d'Agostino Carrache
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1985
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Roberto Zapperi, « Arrigo le Velu, Pietro le Fou, Amon le Nain et autres bêtes : autour d'un tableau d'Agostino Carrache », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1985.283163
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Hirsute Arrigo, Crazy Pietro, Amon the Dwarf and Other Beasts : Concerning a Painting of Agostino Carracci A painting by Agostino Carracci in the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, carries the title Composition with figures and animals .However, old inventories identify the figures as a wild man, a dwarf, and fool the basest members of the Roman court of Cardinal Odoardo Farnese. The painter, who was part of the Farnese court unit the end of the sixteenth century, created an astonishing polemical portrait which, by restoring human dignity to such creatures, implicitly challenges the official ideology that condemns them to the level of animals. This challenge was inspired by Democritus, the Greek philosopher who believed that animals were superior to man, to whom Agostino Carrocci devotes a highly intriguing picture also at Capodimonte.