144 pages. 2003 (new edition in 2024). sold in Chinese (Peking University press) and Hungarian (Typotex). All other rights available.
Considéré comme l'un des trois plus grands représentants de l'apogée de la Renaissance, avec Léonard ou Michel-Ange, Raphaël a été particulièrement sensible aux tensions spirituelles que suscitait le triomphe de l'humanisme. Daniel Arasse reconstitue ici le fil de son évolution artistique et religieuse à travers la représentation de la vision spirituelle. Fondés d'abord sur l'analyse des œuvres, ces deux textes montrent comment Raphaël a su formuler visuellement les attentes profondes et parfois contradictoires de ses contemporains, et aussi comment la peinture constitue une forme de pensée spécifique et irremplaçable.
Daniel Arasse (1944-2003), ancien élève de l'ENS et ancien membre de l'École française de Rome, a enseigné l'histoire de l'art à la Sorbonne. Directeur de l'Institut français de Florence de 1982 à 1989, il a été directeur d'études à l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).
Considered along with Leonardo and Michelangelo as one of the three greatest representatives at the peak of the Renaissance, Raphael was particularly sensitive to the spiritual tensions stirred up by the triumph of humanism. Daniel Arasse retraces the thread of his artistic and religious evolution through the representation of a spiritual vision. Based on the analysis of artworks, this collection is comprised of two texts demonstrating how Raphael managed to visually express the profound and sometimes contradictory hopes and expectations of his contemporaries, and the way in which pain- ting constitutes a specific and irreplaceable form of thought.
Daniel Arasse (1944-2003), a former student of the ENS and a member of the École française de Rome, taught art history at the Sorbonne. Director of the French Institute in Florence from 1982 to 1989, he was Director of Studies at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS).
«If his work stands out and serves as a model today, it’s as much due to his own personal method as to the author’s perfect grasp of the fifteenth and six- teenth centuries.» Le Monde «For thirty years, the most subtle eye was brought to bear on Ita- lian painting.» Le Figaro
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