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- Title
Changing Forms: Mantegna's Poietics in the Camera Picta.
- Authors
Koering, Jérémie
- Abstract
Hidden in the vegetal ornament of one of the pilasters of the Camera Picta, Mantegna placed his self-portrait in the form of a leafy mask. In so doing, he introduced the sign of his authorship at the heart of a germinative process. This essay reconsiders the insertion of the self-portrait as an image of the generative power of the artist. Together with the room’s dedicatory inscription (in particular the term absoluvit), the date 1465 inscribed in the marble, as well as several pictorial inventions signalling the porosity between art and nature, the secret, changing and subtle poietical programme in the Camera Picta can be revealed.
- Subjects
MANTEGNA, Andrea, 1431-1506; CAMERA degli Sposi (Castello di San Giorgio, Mantua, Italy); ITALIAN mural painting &; decoration; 15TH century Italian painting; ITALIAN self-portraits; ARTISTS in art; INSCRIPTIONS
- Publication
Art History, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 2, p294
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8365.12076