The Absorption of Life

• In Event: Artists and Their Techniques in the Florentine Novella

Abstract

The idea that Renaissance artists lived extraordinary lives informs anecdotes about them. Details of their character and particular lifeworld co-existed with the works they produced. But they also made the relationship between art and life fluid. This paper focuses on particular instances of that fluidity: nicknames as signatures; life models; and perspective.

Author

• Joost Keizer, University of Groningen