Resumen de "Ce qu'on peut voir de plus superieur". Ingres e Assisi
The corpus of graphic work by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) conserves a core of drawings inspired by the pictorial decoration of the basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi. The study examines this unprecedented chapter of the Nineteenth-Century reception of Giotto and his followers on two levels: on the one hand attempting a philological approach, seeking to reconstruct the dating and distinguish between the different periods and phases of some drawings and their possible chronology. On the other hand, the virtual 'Assisi notebook' is inserted into the context of Ingres' long-lasting, albeit dissimulated, interest in medieval art: an interest stretching back to early Christian testimonies, fostered as much by direct contact with the works as an extensive and careful consultation of artistic literature, from Vasari to Nineteenth-Century illustrated historiography.
