Piven, Marina G. The Theme of Magic in Florentine Picture-Chronicle Drawings (British Museum, London): Motifs, Textual and Iconographic Origins

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Title The Theme of Magic in Florentine Picture-Chronicle Drawings (British Museum, London): Motifs, Textual and Iconographic Origins
Author email piven06@yandex.ru
About author Piven, Marina G. — Ph. D, associate professor. Russian State University for the Humanities, Miusskaia pl., 6, 125993 Moscow, Russian Federation; SPIN-code: 4227-6913; ORCID: 0000-0003-3690-8726
In the section Art of the Renaissance DOI10.18688/aa2313-5-41
Year 2023 Volume 13 Pages 504–516
Type of article RAR Index UDK 76; 7.04 Index BBK 85.103(0)4; 85стд 1-3
Abstract

The study aims to investigate the drawings of the Florentine Picture Chronicle (c. 1470–1475, British Museum, London) dedicated to the motifs of magic. The authorship of that book of drawings is associated with the circle of Maso Finiguerra and Baccio Baldini. The content of the album is based on a general program that represents world history in visual images. The theme of magic within the compositions of the “Florentine Chronicle” is an important semantic line. Its pages contain the collected figures of Zoroaster, Ostanes, and Hermes Trismegistus, as well as many characters of Greco-Roman mythology and the Old Testament, who appear in the light of their possession of secret knowledge. The article considers the iconographic prototypes of the drawings and analyzes the literary texts that influenced the choice and determined the pictorial interpretation of the characters. Special attention has been paid to the historical and cultural context of life in 15th-century Italy, which sparked an interest in the theme of magic in art.
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Reference Piven, Marina G. The Theme of Magic in Florentine Picture-Chronicle Drawings (British Museum, London): Motifs, Textual and Iconographic Origins. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 13. Eds A. V. Zakharova, S. V. Maltseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova. — Lomonosov Moscow State University / St. Petersburg: NP-Print, 2023, pp. 504–516. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa2313-5-41
Publication Article language russian
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