Asleep in the Grass of Arcady
Giulio Campagnola's Dreamer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10415010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Emison (0000-0002-3203-0402, University of New Hampshire at Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 271-292 |
| Publication date | 1992-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2862749 |
| OpenAlex | W2013772328 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
The rarest figural view is that involving a protagonist seen from behind, not directing a look outward toward the spectator. One such example is Giulio Campagnola's engraving of a solitary woman in a landscape, seen in a three-quarters rear view (fig. i). Radically stripped of iconographic attributes as it is, this print is less narrative, or even lyrical, in its presence than many pastoral compositions. Here there is no warm, atmospheric, and mellow world of wish-fulfillment as in the Dresden Venus. Giulio offered no paper Giorgione but rather a place in which lush vegetation clashes against sharp turrets, and no Cupid attends upon dormant, soft female flesh. Giulio distanced the image from predigested literary conventions. Yet the art historical inclination is to assimilate Giulio's work to Giorgione's, and furthermore to understand Giorgione's importance as consisting in his visualization of the hitherto literary world of pastoral. Ut pictor poe'sis can be too handy an axiom
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The Female body in western culture
On Classical Studies
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The Boundaries of Eros
Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature
Of antique and other figures
The boundaries of eros— Sex crime and sexuality in Renaissance Venice
The Storm of War
Western Sexuality
Renaissance Dreams
Repression and Change in the Sexual Life of Young People in Medieval and Early Modern Times
The Renaissance Perversion of Pastoral
Crisis and Change in the Venetian Economy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The Power of Images
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |