Shaftesbury, tra 'sentimento' per la pittura ed 'enthusiasm' per il disegno

• Autores: Raffaele De Giorgi
• Localización: Rivista d'arte: periodico internazionale di storia dell'arte medievale e moderna, ISSN 1122-0732, Nº. 3, 2013, págs. 317-346
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The research focuses the attention on the role of Lord Shaftesbury as Patron of the Arts, particulary in relation to the decoration of the kKng's Staircase at Hampton Court Palace, realized by the Italian painter Antonio Verrio during the biennium 1700-1702. The subject matter is a complex allegory taken from "The Satire of the Caesars" written in 361 A.D. by the Emperor Julian The Apostate: in subtance, a celebration of the victory of the protestant William III over the catholic Stuart king, James II, dethroned in 1688, but also -implicity- in such a way as to underline the open contrast between the French Monarchy and his own policy. Hence the need to reconsider a somewhat hastily settled theme like this, often obscured by the most decisive calibre of aesthetic speculation, which has rather interesting implications related both to the contemporary history of European art and to the elaboration of Shaftesbury's theories, so masterfully collected in his "Chasracteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions and Times" (1711); wherein is found a considerable determination not only to understand the contribution made by the Arts in the development of a modern civil consciousness, but also to understand Shaftesbury's opinion on the main artistic "querelles" of his time -like colour vs. design- and the possibility of solving these through the aesthetic and conceptual triad, "art-beauty-truth".