The discourse of failure in Seventeenth-Century Rome: Prospero Bresciano's Moses

• Autores: Steven F. Ostrow
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 88, Nº 2, 2006, págs. 267-291
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Since the moment of its unveiling in 1588, Prospero Bresciano’s Moses, which adorns the center of the Fontana dell'Acqua Felice in Rome, was ridiculed as a "monster" and the work of a "sculptor who had lost his mind." One of its earliest critics, Giovanni Baglione, similarly denigrated the statue, framing his critique in terms of art theory and fabricating a moral tale around the work’s failure. What emerges from an examination of the early responses to the Moses is both a tragicomic fable in the history of art and a lesson in reading and interpreting early modern art criticism.