Vedute possibili: finestre paesaggistiche nella ritrattistica di Leandro Bassano e Domenico Tintoretto

• Autores: Meri Sclosa
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 94, 2010, págs. 33-52
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • This article considers some of the landscapes, seen through windows, that often enrich portraits by Leandro Bassano and Domenico Tintoretto, and underlines how the function of such panoramic backgrounds is not exclusively compositional or ornamental, but can take on the meaning of a visual clue to the identification of the sitters. These landscape notations often relate solely to the individual and although they lack the topographical objectivity of the eighteenth century, they define an imago urbis, or mental elaboration of a civic construct in a paradigmatic and always recognizable form, even when the definition of place is subject to whimsical treatment, as in the Portrait of the Duke of Candia, Giovanni Francesco Sagredo painted by the Cavalier Bassano.