The Artist as Murderer

An Enduring Legend from Ancient Greece to the Modern Day

Norman E. Land (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

205 Seiten

2022
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8395-9 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

The 4th century BC Greek painter Parrhasius murdered his model--an old man who was his slave--to achieve, so the story goes, a more lifelike depiction of nature. The tale has inspired similar, more elaborate stories about both well known and obscure artists--including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Rubens. Elements of the tale have appeared in theater, literature and film, as well as in comments by painters, historians, critics and anatomists. Challenging the archetype of the artist as a sympathetic lover of nature, this book examines the artist as cruel and murderous in service of art and ambition, and indirectly addresses a different understanding of the relationship between art and life.

The late Norman E. Land lived in Columbia, Missouri.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsviii

Preface

1. Introduction: The Artist as Murderer

2. The Image of Parrhasius

3. Parrhasius and the Olynthian Slave

4. The Afterlife of Seneca’s Tale

5. Tormented Models

6. Michelangelo Murders a Model

7. Carpenter’s Tale

8. The Tale Retold

9. Variations on the Tale

10. Professional Opinions

11. A Turkish Spy on Giotto

12. A Legend of a Sculptor

13. Parrhasius in Love

14. The Return of Parrhasius

15. “The Man in Purple”

16. Socrates and Parrhasius

17. The Return of Michelangelo

18. Criminal Artists

19. Death and Detachment

20. Afterword: Art and Life

Appendix A: Giovanni Paolo Marana, “A Turkish Spy on Giotto”

Appendix B: Adelbert von Chamisso, “The Crucifix: An Artist’s Legend”

Appendix C: Nathaniel Parker Willis, “Parrhasius”

Appendix D: Espy W.H. Williams, “Parrhasius; or, Thriftless Ambition”

Appendix E: Pierre Louÿs, “The Man in Purple”

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2022
Zusatzinfo	appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-4766-8395-6 / 1476683956
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8395-9 / 9781476683959
Zustand	Neuware