Invisible perfection : eighteenth-century artists' perplexity over Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura
Editor(s)
Nathan, Johannes
Roesler-Friedenthal, Antoinette
Publisher
Berlin: Mann
Date issued
2003
In
The Enduring Instant. Time and the Spectator in the Visual Arts
From page
71
To page
79
Serie
The Enduring Instant. Time and the Spectator in the Visual Arts
Subjects
Anecdote- Cours-de-peinture-par-principes Dublin -IRL -National-Gallery-of-Ireland France- Grande-Bretagne Italie- Parodie-de-lkEcole-dkAthenes Peinture- Peinture-murale Piles -Roger-de -1635-1709 Raffaello-Sanzio -1483-1520 Reynolds -Joshua
Abstract
Examines accounts by several artists of their first encounter with Raphael's frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. Begins with Roger de Piles's version (in his Cours de peinture par principes of 1708) and ends with Joshua Reynolds's, including discussion of the latter's Parody of the School of Athens (1751; Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland) made at the time of his first visit to the Vatican. Shows how the same story was appropriated and manipulated and thus had its meaning changed over the course of the 18th c.
Publication type
book part