IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1034: Literary and Pictorial Delights: Pleasure as Cultural Practice in the Late Middle Ages and the Beginning of the Renaissance, I
Wednesday 3 July 2013, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Carlos Rafael Ruta, Escuela de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de San Martín |
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| Moderator/Chair: | José Emilio Burucúa, Escuela de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de San Martín |
| Paper 1034-a | Painting and Pleasure: Delectation in Images from Alberti to Leonardo (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting |
| Paper 1034-b | Reasons for Pleasure and the Pleasures of Reason: The Philosophical Background of John of Jandun's De laudibus Parisius (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy |
| Paper 1034-c | Taking Pleasure in the Aesthetics of Books: Some Observations about Bibliophiles of the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality |
| Abstract | In a Familiar Letter from 1346, Petrarch praised reading as a form of beneficial pleasure. He contrasted that activity with the superficial delight derived from images. Leon Battista Alberti’s thoughts on the matter follow a different path: in De Pictura, he asserted that fruition towards images was also a source of legitimate pleasure. Our panel will discuss the concept of pleasure derived from the contemplation of texts and images, from mid-14th century until the beginnings of the 16th century. We will consider the deviating paths between them, trace possible dialectic relationships through which they strengthened each other, or even analyze the conflicts that arose in this paragone. |