Bernini, Ovid, and the Art of Active Reading Pubblico
Pedersen, Rebecca (2011)
Abstract
Abstract
Bernini, Ovid, and the Art of Active Reading
By Rebecca Pedersen
Active reading occurs when the reader responds in some way to what
he or she has
read-by jotting down notes in the margins of a book, perhaps, or by
reading a text in search of a
certain type of information. The boundaries of the active reader's
response, however, remain
undefined, and research on the history of books and on the history
of reading continues to reveal
a variety of ways in which readers in the past have interacted with
their books. In a departure
from the written response that often accompanies active reading,
this thesis presents a model in
which sculpture is considered as an artist's visual response to his
texts. Two narrative figure
groups by Gianlorenzo Bernini, the Pluto and Persephone
(1621-22) and the Apollo and Daphne
(1622-25), are examined in light of their possible relation to the
books in the artist's library, with
particular attention given to a few of the most accessible texts in
early modern Rome, including
Cesare Ripa's Iconologia, Petrarch's Rime Sparse, and
Giovanni Andrea dell'Anguillara's
translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. These literary works
are explored as sources of narrative
and imagery that Bernini may have employed in the conception and
execution of his
mythological sculptures.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………1
Chapter 1: The Intellectual
Milieu…………………………………………………………….6
Chapter 2: Pluto and
Persephone……………………………………………………………..12
Chapter 3: Apollo and
Daphne……………………….………………………………………30
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………46
Works
Cited…………………………………………………………………………………..49
List of
Figures………………………………………………………………………………..53
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