The Italian studies on the German painter Wilhelm Tischbein – but we should actually say Neapolitans studies because they focus almost exclusively on the period spent in the shadow of Vesuvius and largely conducted by Neapolitan scholars – have marked by a long misunderstanding and, in some cases, by a real removal due to ostracism towards the neoclassical language, that of the Italian Tischbein. Therefore, reconstructing and analyzing the Italian studies on the German painter necessarily involves crossing and retracing those on neoclassicism tout court, and southern specifically. Starting from the first speculations by Benedetto Croce in 1897, the essay traces the main interventions on the painter, negative for the most of the Twentieth century, up to the most recent contributions in which a Masonic interpretation of his figure and some of his works is offered.
Da Goethe-Maler a Neapolitaner. Riflessioni sulla fortuna critica di Wilhelm Tischbein in Italia
Brevetti, Giulio
2021
Abstract
The Italian studies on the German painter Wilhelm Tischbein – but we should actually say Neapolitans studies because they focus almost exclusively on the period spent in the shadow of Vesuvius and largely conducted by Neapolitan scholars – have marked by a long misunderstanding and, in some cases, by a real removal due to ostracism towards the neoclassical language, that of the Italian Tischbein. Therefore, reconstructing and analyzing the Italian studies on the German painter necessarily involves crossing and retracing those on neoclassicism tout court, and southern specifically. Starting from the first speculations by Benedetto Croce in 1897, the essay traces the main interventions on the painter, negative for the most of the Twentieth century, up to the most recent contributions in which a Masonic interpretation of his figure and some of his works is offered.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
