Du dessin à la gravure. "L'Arboro della pazzia" de Fernando Bertelli, 1568

• Autores: Catherine Monbeig Goguel
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 172, 2023, págs. 36-48
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • The parallel, drawn here for the first time, between an anonymous Italian drawing in the Louvre (INV. 11796), and an engraving entitled "L'Arboro della pazzia" (The Tree of Folly) prompts reflection on the representation of human madness in the second half of the sixteenth century, as seen in the Fools' Staircase at Trausnitz Castle in Bavaria pianted by the Florentine Alessandro Padovano. The copy of this print in the Uffizi, representing the "Mondo alla rovescia" (Topsy-Turvy World), bears the name of the Venetian publisher Ferrando Bertelli and the date 1568. The image consists of small-scale comic scenes evoking human folly, including two characters from the Commedia dell'arte. In the engraving, a text printed under each scene explains its meaning, as in Niccolo Nelli, but without anything to indicate the order in which the sequence should be read. This can now be established thanks solely to the drawing, which bears numbering and thus allows for a progression as in a game of snakes and ladders. This is less a popular image than an instrument for moral education in the manner of Pietro Aretino's "Dialogo del giuoco" of 1543.