Autore
Lacagnina, Davide

Titolo
Memoria e attualità dell'antico nel Prométhée di Gustave Moreau
Periodico
Ricerche di storia dell'arte
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 109 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 5 - Pagina finale: 17

The article reconsiders thegenesis of Gustave Moreau'sProméthée exposed at 1869 ParisSalon, focusing especially on itsvisual and literary sources fromAntiquity to Renaissance Art.A"er a strong education in classics, Moreau traveled to Italy andhad the chance to deepen hisknowledge and understandingof Art History. Since then, as forhis Prométhée, quotations frommany celebrated masterpieces(from the I century B.C. Sigillo diNerone in the Museo Borbonico,Naples, to the early 16th century Raphael's ceiling frescoes inthe Vatican) qualify his work ofnew interpretations: classical literature, Renaissance culture andNeo-Platonist theory melt withthe concern for the role and theduty of the artist in his time, between the end of the Second Em-pire, the Franco-Prussian armistice and the Paris Commune. InMoreau's view this is how historypainting turns out epic and political and religious commitmentenhance present with a neo-humanistic attitude.



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