Images of Troy and Carthage in Quatrocento Italian book miniatures and decorative painting
No. 1(16) (2020), Forum
No. 1(16) (2020)

Images of Troy and Carthage in Quatrocento Italian book miniatures and decorative painting

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УДК 7.034 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25712/ASTU.2518-7767.2020.01.007
Published 2020-03-30
Marina Georgievna Piven
Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts; Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russian Federation)

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№ 1 (16) 2020 "Искусство Евразии", научный журнал об искусстве.
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Keywords

iconography, Renaissance art, Quattrocento, book miniatures, cassoni painting, images of ancient cities, motifs of the ancient epic, Troy, Carthage, Apollonio di Giovanni,

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Piven M. G. Images of Troy and Carthage in Quatrocento Italian book miniatures and decorative painting // The Art of Eurasia, 2020. № 1(16). P. 92–104. URL: https://doi.org/10.25712/ASTU.2518-7767.2020.01.007.
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Abstract

The essay is devoted to the artistic interpretation of motifs, associated with the images of  Troy and Carthage in Quattrocento book miniatures and domestic painting (paintings of  cassoni and spalliere). The text focuses on the connection between works of fine art and literary descriptions of disappeared ancient cities, iconography and the semantics of epic plots. The author concludes that the artistic interpretation of the image of the city in Quattrocento art was an important part of the Renaissance understanding of history and the place of man in  it. Along with the general convention of the interpretation of antique motifs, miniaturists and masters of decorative painting found means and iconographic techniques to reflect the  key literary topos associated with the history of ancient cities.

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