Style and autorship in early Italian Renaissance Art

• Autores: Joost Keizer
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ISSN 0044-2992, Vol. 78, Nº. 3-4, 2015, págs. 370-385
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The history of the concept of style remains remarkably understudied. Recent studies cultivate the impression that the style has only been recognized as a concept since the sixteenth century, in the decades leading up to the publication of Vasari's "Vite". But fourteenth- and fifteenth-century authors already wrote about the special relationship between artists and their works in terms of style. This essay charts the history of the concept of style in Italy from its inception in the fourteenth century to the early sixteenth century. Its main focus is the early formation of individual style. One important aim of the essay is to show how individual style related to fourteenth- and fifteenth-century realism, the dominant aesthetic category of the time, and to theories about artistic authorship.