Research Catalog

Title

The making of the Affetti : Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem delivered from the Carracci to Tiepolo / Giovanni Careri.

Author

Careri, Giovanni, 1958-

Publication

• London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

Davis, Theresa (Translator)

Description

xvii, 265 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm.

Summary

• "This book deals with "translation" from the verbal to the visual, has itself been the subject of many translations and revisions. Written in French, then translated and reworked by me for the Italian translation, it was translated into English by Theresa Davis, then revised by me with the collaboration of Kendra Walker, and finally revised and partly retranslated by Alexandra Hoare" ... I could not update the bibliography because the publications on Tasso's poems are so numerous that the book would have had to be completely rewritten. Instead i have reworded and corrected many passages in the hope of gaining clarity"--Acknowledgements page.
• Armida reaches out to Rinaldo armed with a long knife. She hates him, she wants to kill him. Cupid restrains her arm, but the left hand of the sorceress already lies on that of the sleeping hero, a touch that leads her to fall in love. The blue and the red divide the scene. Two contrary passions, narrated by Torquato Tasso, depicted by Nicolas Poussin, are depicted across the canvas. The liberated Jerusalem is the privileged locus of the affetti, to which painting, music, dance and theater have been drawn throughout Europe starting from the sixteenth century. Going further than the narrated action, the painters have diverted the attention to the complex dynamics of passion that Tasso's masterpiece conveys in literary images, and have captured the devices for configuring this new profane affection as opposed to the affectum devotionis of the sacred texts. This volume investigates the exchange between the poetic word and the most stimulating works that have interacted with it. Condensed within visual formulas, a variety of themes emerge such as the blurring of the lines between male and female identity, between love and war; the confrontations and exchanges between different cultures, through violence, religious conversion and the assimilation of one another; the modern hero divided between the worldly, affective arena of the court and the locus amoenus protected from passions. Ultimately, the study examines the astounding political implications of art in relation to court rituals and to all those practices through which power is built and strengthened. Examining the images that permeate poetry and the poetic devices that have found their way into painting, Giovanni Careri traces a trajectory to the fundamental moment of reconfiguration of the visual history of passions. Through the paintings of great artists such as Poussin, Tintoretto, Guercino, Tiepolo and dei Carracci, the author explores the affective revolution at the base of the contemporary world.

Series Statement

Harvey Miller studies in Baroque art

Uniform Title

• Gestes d'armour et de guerre. English
• Harvey Miller studies in Baroque art.

Alternative Title

Gestes d'armour et de guerre.

Subject

• Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595. > Illustrations
• Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595 > Criticism and interpretation
• Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595
• Gerusalemme liberata (Tasso, Torquato)
• 1500-1599
• 1500-1699
• Epic poetry, Italian > 16th century > History and criticism
• Love in art
• War in art
• Painting, European > 16th century > Themes, motives
• Painting, European > 17th century > Themes, motives
• Art and literature
• Italian poetry > 16th century > History and criticism
• Painting, European > Themes, motives
• Italian poetry
• Epic poetry, Italian
• Painting, European
• Themes, motives
• Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

• Art.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Illustrated works.

Note

• "© Éditions de l'EHESS, Paris for the original French edition : Giovanni Careri, "Gestes d'armour et de guerre" (Paris: Éditions de l'EHESS, 2005).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-259) and index.

Call Number

JQF 23-566

ISBN

• 9781912554102
• 1912554100

OCLC

1350352514

Author

Careri, Giovanni, 1958- author.

Title

The making of the Affetti : Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem delivered from the Carracci to Tiepolo / Giovanni Careri.

Publisher

London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Harvey Miller studies in Baroque art

Harvey Miller studies in Baroque art.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-259) and index.

Local Note

AUTH IUAV UNIVERSITY, VENICE. FOCUSES ON ITALIAN WORKS TIED TO POETRY. COLOR. TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH

Chronological Term

1500-1599

Chronological Term

1500-1699

Added Author

Davis, Theresa (Translator), translator.

Research Call Number

JQF 23-566