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标题：Bartolomeo Maranta’s “Discourse” on Titian’s Annunciation in Naples: introduction
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作者：Luba Freedman
期刊名称：Journal of Art Historiography
印刷版ISSN：2042-4752
出版年度：2015
卷号：13
页码：13-LF1
语种：English
出版社：University of Glasgow, Institute for Art History
摘要：More than a contemporary commentary on Titian’s Annunciation, Maranta’s ‘Discorso’ offers an analysis of the painting. Maranta applies a five-fold concept of beauty to the portrayal of the Angel Gabriel, and dismisses as baseless certain opinions regarding the unsuitability of the figure, while questioning about what constitutes a critic’s expertise. He considers a similarly controversial figure, Michelangelo’s youthful Christ in the Last Judgment, arguing that the surprising elements in both pictures reveal the intentions of the painter to express the mystery. As a literary critic, Maranta interprets both figures as ‘pictorial metaphors’; as a physician, he analyses the figure of the Angel in terms of its sanguine temperament and the positioning of the ‘speaking hand’ in terms of its anatomical structure. The essay and accompanying English translation set the ‘Discorso’ in the cultural and artistic milieu of Naples, making more accessible a neglected work of Renaissance aesthetics.