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| Author(s): |
Renato Menezes Ramos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2015-06-10 |
| Examining board members: |
Luiz Cesar Marques Filho;
Patricia Dalcanale Meneses;
Alexandre Ragazzi
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| Advisor: | Luiz Cesar Marques Filho |
| Abstract | |
During the nineteenth century, the image of Michelangelo, a paradigmatic artist from the Italian Renaissance and the biggest artist of Modern Age, would pass through a deep reformulation. In France, as this thesis will analyze, it is possible to note the flowering of a particular comprehension regarding Michelangelo, constantly understanding him as a submissive person, with a melancholic and temperamental behavior, being hard to deal with. It is known that the aforementioned characteristics emerge from the sixteenth sources, to which the nineteenth century devotes special attention, but it is also important to comprehend this phenomenon as the fundamental unity of the complex process of redefinition of the artist¿s social status. In 1830, a year marked by the Revolution, Eugène Delacroix wrote a biography of the Florentine master. In 1876, Auguste Rodin went for the first and only time to Italy, after the celebration of the fourth centenary of Michelangelo¿s birth. From there, he sent a letter to his companion. During this time interval, many other biographies to the master were written and his image would be related to many artists that, from an iconographic point of view and also regarding the formulation of their own aesthetic horizons, understood Michelangelo¿s melancholy as the core from which artistic problems are originated, debouching in the chronicle disempowerment of the classic¿s authority (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/01681-1 - Melancholy, heroism and failure: the reception of the michelangelo myth in nineteenth century |
| Grantee: | Renato Menezes Ramos |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |