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Ronsard's Contentious Sisters: The Paragone Between Poetry and Painting in the Works of Pierre de Ronsard

Ronsard's Contentious Sisters: The Paragone Between Poetry and Painting in the Works of Pierre de Ronsard

Campo, Roberto

Paperback

Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu, Book 257

Art Criticism & TheoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0807892610
ISBN13: 9780807892619
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
Published: Jan 1 1998
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.18
Language: English

This book examines Ronsard's participation in the heated paragone debate between poets and painters: the Renaissance contest for superiority in the ranking of the arts that emerged in counterpoint to the parity-centered, pseudo-Horatian principle of ut pictura poesis (as is painting, so is poetry). The book explores issues that, despite their importance throughout Ronsard's poetry and the writings of leading paragone theorists such as Leone Battista Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci, have remained largely unnoticed. In broadest terms, Roberto Campo investigates the poet's notions about the differences between poems and pictures. More precisely, it examines Ronsard's views on two fundamental preoccupations of the theoretical and practical discussions about the arts during the Renaissance: which mode of expression, word or image, can more accurately and meaningfully represent natural realities and abstract celestial truths; and thus, whose art, the poet's or the painter's, holds the highest station in the hierarchy of human creative endeavor?

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