Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0060646

Zusammenfassung

This project looks at the iconography of St. Luke painting the Virgin in late sixteenth-century Central Italy and the emerging notion of the artist as visionary. In the second half of the 16th Century, the early version of the legend of St. Luke as a portrait sitting transformed into an account of the St. Luke icon made in the prototype's absence - that is, as the product of an artistic vision. Traditionally, scholars explain the shift from historical event to interior vision in the representation of the St. Luke legend as an evolution of the cult object into the cult of the image, and...