Quixotic frescoes
Subtitle: Cervantes and Italian Renaissance art
By: Frederick A. de Armas.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780802090744
Subjects: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616.; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616 -- Knowledge -- Art.; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616 -- Knowledge -- Italy.; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616 -- Technique.; Ekphrasis.; Art in literature.
Description: "Focusing on Don Quixote, Frederick A. de Armas unearths links between Cervantes' text and frescoes, paintings, and sculptures by Italian artists such as Cambiaso, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. His study seeks to re-engage the critics of today by formulating the link between Cervantes and the Renaissance through an interdisciplinary dialogue that establishes a new set of models and predecessors. This dialogue is used to explore a variety of issues in Cervantes including the absence of a single guiding pictorial program, the doubling of archaeological reconstruction, and the use of ekphrasis as allusion, interpolation, and an integral component of the action. Quixotic Frescoes delves into the politics of imitation, self-censorship, religious ideology expressed through the pictorial, as well as the gendering of art as reflected in Cervantes' work. This detailed and exhaustive study is an invaluable contribution to both Hispanic and Renaissance studies."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index.