Conférence : Patricia Rubin, « Perverse Images: Monstrous Beauty and Monkey Business in Italian Art from Botticelli to Bronzino », en ligne, 27 mai 2021
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26 mai 2021
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Florence Larcher, « Conférence : Patricia Rubin, « Perverse Images: Monstrous Beauty and Monkey Business in Italian Art from Botticelli to Bronzino », en ligne, 27 mai 2021 », Centre d’histoire de l’art de la Renaissance, ID : 10.58079/mokz
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In canto 29 of Dante’s Inferno a notorious alchemist, consigned to the depths of Hell among the fraudulent, boasts of having been a successful ape of nature (“di natura buona scimia”). The boast allies imitation with counterfeiting and points to the way that representational truth to nature is inherently false. This talk takes the presence of monkeys in Sandro Botticelli’s tondo showing the Adoration of the Magi (The National Gallery, London), Michelangelo’s sculpture of a languishing prison...