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IV.2 Convergence in Conception
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | The Italian term paragone, meaning literally “comparison,” has taken on a range of significances within art history that make it somewhat difficult to define. Although the term is sometimes taken to refer to the specific rivalry of painting and sculpture, Leonardo's posthumously assembled Trattato della pittura-the central text of the paragone tradition-spreads its net considerably wider to include both poetry and music. We can perhaps best think of the paragone as a kind of speculative investigation proceeding through a comparison of various arts, which loomed large in the Renaissance reception of the ancient discourse on the arts. The end point of the investigation, from the point of view of Renaissance artists, was always and inevitably to elevate the status of their own medium above the others; the paragone must therefore be seen in the context of visual artists' quest for parity of status with the other arts across the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Music played an important part in the tradition of the comparison of the arts, in both its ancient and Renaissance incarnations, and also in the question of the status of the visual arts, but its role has been largely overlooked in modern scholarship. Book Name: The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture |
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| Ending Page | 280 |
| Page Count | 36 |
| Starting Page | 245 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203629987-23 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2013-07-31 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Routledge Companion To Music and Visual Culture Visual and Performing Arts Paragone Artists Comparison Renaissance Ancient Status Art History |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
