174090 C C1C4 4C_OK-Proofs.pdf_PG 1_Juillet 23, 2019_09:25:15 Acciarino Paradigms of Renaissance Grotesques Renaissance of Paradigms Acciarino Since the grotesque frequently manifests itself as striking incongruities, ingen- ious hybrids, and creative deformities of nature and culture, it is profoundly impli- cated in early modern debates on the theological, philosophical, and ethical role of images. This consideration serves as the central focus from which the articles inthe collection then move outward along different lines of conceptualization, chronology, cultural relevance, place, and site. They cover a wide spectrum of artistic media, from prints to drawings, from sculptures to gardens, from paintings to stuccos. As they do this, they engage with, and bring together, theoretical perspectives from writ- ersasdiverseasPlatoandPaleotti,VitruviusandVasari,MolanusandMontaigne. Whether travelling a short distance from Nero’s Domus Aurea toRaphael’sVatican logge,oracrosstheoceanfromItalytoNewSpain,thisvolumegoesfurtherthanany previous study in defining the historic understanding of grotesque and, in so doing, providing us with a more nuanced resource for our understanding of an art form once viewed as peripheral. This book offers new readings of the history, meanings, and cultural innovations of the grotesque as defined by a diversity of current critical theories and practices anchored by solid, enlightening scholarship. The research presented in these essays is not only sound but impressive. Michael Giordano, Wayne State University This is an important study on the ever more interesting subject of the idea of the grotesque throughout the Renaissance. It deserves many readers. David Cast, Bryn Mawr College Damiano Acciarino is Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia and at the University of Toronto. He works on Renaissance Antiquarianism. Paradigms of He has published several articles concerning Renaissance grotesques on academic journals, such as Venezia Arte (2016), Storia dell’Arte (2016), Schede Umanistiche Renaissance Grotesques (2016), and the monograph Lettere sulle grottesche (1580–1581) (2018), for which he won the 2019 best book prize from the Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History. Edited by Damiano Acciarino CRRS Victoria University University of Toronto 71 Queen’s Park Crescent East Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1K7, Canada CRRS 174090 C C1C4 4C_OK-Proofs.pdf_PG 1_Juillet 23, 2019_09:25:15 Acciarino Paradigms of Renaissance Grotesques Renaissance of Paradigms Acciarino Since the grotesque frequently manifests itself as striking incongruities, ingen- ious hybrids, and creative deformities of nature and culture, it is profoundly impli- cated in early modern debates on the theological, philosophical, and ethical role of images. This consideration serves as the central focus from which the articles inthe collection then move outward along different lines of conceptualization, chronology, cultural relevance, place, and site. They cover a wide spectrum of artistic media, from prints to drawings, from sculptures to gardens, from paintings to stuccos. As they do this, they engage with, and bring together, theoretical perspectives from writ- ersasdiverseasPlatoandPaleotti,VitruviusandVasari,MolanusandMontaigne. Whether travelling a short distance from Nero’s Domus Aurea toRaphael’sVatican logge,oracrosstheoceanfromItalytoNewSpain,thisvolumegoesfurtherthanany previous study in defining the historic understanding of grotesque and, in so doing, providing us with a more nuanced resource for our understanding of an art form once viewed as peripheral. This book offers new readings of the history, meanings, and cultural innovations of the grotesque as defined by a diversity of current critical theories and practices anchored by solid, enlightening scholarship. The research presented in these essays is not only sound but impressive. Michael Giordano, Wayne State University This is an important study on the ever more interesting subject of the idea of the grotesque throughout the Renaissance. It deserves many readers. David Cast, Bryn Mawr College Damiano Acciarino is Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia and at the University of Toronto. He works on Renaissance Antiquarianism. Paradigms of He has published several articles concerning Renaissance grotesques on academic journals, such as Venezia Arte (2016), Storia dell’Arte (2016), Schede Umanistiche Renaissance Grotesques (2016), and the monograph Lettere sulle grottesche (1580–1581) (2018), for which he won the 2019 best book prize from the Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History. Edited by Damiano Acciarino CRRS Victoria University University of Toronto 71 Queen’s Park Crescent East Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1K7, Canada CRRS Publications of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Essays and Studies, 43 Series Editor Konrad Eisenbichler Victoria University in the University of Toronto Paradigms of Renaissance Grotesques Edited by Damiano Acciarino Toronto Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies 2019 CRRS Publications Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Victoria University in the University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7, Canada Tel: 416/585–4465 Fax: 416/585–4430 Email: [email protected] Web: www.crrs.ca © 2019 by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies All Rights Reserved Printed in Canada. The CRRS gratefully acknowledges the generous financial support it receives for its publishing activities from Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Dr. Damiano Acciarino’s research project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie ATRA — “Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism” H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, G.A. n°745704. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Paradigms of Renaissance grotesques / edited by Damiano Acciarino. Names: Acciarino, Damiano, editor. | Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, issuing body. Series: Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renais- sance Studies) ; 43. Description: Series statement: Essays and studies ; 43 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190126698 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190126809 | ISBN 9780772721952 (softcover) | ISBN 9780772721938 (PDF) Subjects: LCSH: Aesthetics, Renaissance. | LCSH: Art, Renaissance. | LCSH: Grotesque. | LCSH: Gro- tesque in art. | LCSH: Grotesque in architecture. | LCSH: Grotesque in literature. Classification: LCC BH301.G74 R46 2019 | DDC 700/.415—dc23 Cover image: Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, French (Paris c. 1505–c. 1586 Montargis or Paris), Grotesque with Two Winged Females Bound to an Urn, 1562. Typesetting, cover design, and production: Iter Inc. Contents Acknowledgments 9 Contributors 11 List of Illustrations 15 Introduction 27 1. Between Renaissance and Reformation: Grotesques and the Debate on Images Damiano Acciarino 29 Theoretical Perspectives 55 2. Grotesques and the Antique. Raphael’s Discovery of the Fourth Style Alessandra Zamperini 57 3. “Sense of Nonsense.” a Theology of Grotesques Dorothea Scholl 85 4. Laughing with the Grotesques in the Renaissance Philippe Morel 123 5. Plato’s Stag Goats: Sophistic Heritage in Renaissance Grotesques Clare Lapraik Guest 155 6. Telling Time: Representations of Ruins in Grotesques Maria Fabricius Hansen 201 7. Grotesque Poetics. Michel de Montaigne’s Use of Grotesques in De l’Amitié (I:28) Simon Godart 219 8. Unwinding the Arabesque: Grotesque Ornament and Modern Meaning Frances S. Connelly 241 Practical Applications 265 9. The Logic of Grotesques in Renaissance Art: Marian Figuration at the Limits of Representation Kathryn Blair Moore 267 10. Interplay of Grotesques in Giorgio Vasari and Cristofano Gherardi Liana De Girolami Cheney 297 11. Old Forms Grow in New Lands: Grotesque Decoration in the Open Chapel at San Luis Obispo (Tlalmanalco, Mexico) Barnaby Nygren 331 12. Plants of the Gods and Weird Creatures: The Cryptic Language of Sixteenth-Century Convent Walls in Mexico Patrizia Granziera 361 13. “Nocturnal Fowl Disorientated by Sunlight:” Grottesche and Gardens in the Late Sixteenth Century Luke Morgan 401 14. Other Bodies and Other Forms: Grotesque Departures in Seventeenth-Century Naples Maria-Anna Aristova 433 15. Ridicolosa Rassomiglianza: The Art of Exaggeration in the Carracci’s Caricatures Veronica M. White 473 Appendix 499 16. Ulisse Aldrovandi. Five Letters on painting Thomas DePasquale (trans.) 503 17. Pirro Ligorio. Three Letters on Grotesque Painting John Garton (trans.) 535 18. Giambattista Bombelli. Three Letters on grotesques Sylvia Gaspari (trans.) 561 19. Egnazio Danti. Letter to Camillo Paleotti Sylvia Gaspari (trans.) 569 20. Federico Pendasio. Letter to Giovanni Francesco Arrivabene Sylvia Gaspari (trans.) 571 21. Alfonso Chacón [?], Letter to Camillo Paleotti Sylvia Gaspari (trans.) 573 Index 577 Laura Avesani Acknowledgments I would like to thank Konrad Eisenbichler, who encouraged, fostered, and empowered this book. I also thank him for mentoring and inspiring me, and for exemplifying for me the art of working hard for a vision. I thank all the authors of the present volume who made this vision possible. Damiano Acciarino Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia University of Toronto 9 Contributors Damiano Acciarino is a Marie Curie Fellow at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia and at the University