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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_7240
dc.contributor.author	Gigante Lorenzo
dc.title	Il sonno della Storia produce miti. Il Seicento e le origini della xilografia
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	The scarce space that Giorgio Vasari dedicates in his Vite to the woodcut technique meant a long exclusion of wood engraving from Italian artistic historiography, a silence that survived its author for at least two centuries. Only from the second half of the 18th century did a debate on the origins of woodcut begin to develop in Italy. However, the void of historiography was partly filled between the 16th and 17th centuries by significant episodes of interest in 15th-century woodcut, linked not so much to their artistic aspect, but rather to their devotional one. The analysis of a series of cases highlights a certain need at the time to deal with the origins of woodcut. Despite the silence of the official treatises, responses offered often surprising results.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni di Venezia Arti
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-05-13
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-11-25
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-589-6/il-sonno-della-storia-produce-miti/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-588-9/014
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8868
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-588-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Giorgio Vasari
dc.subject	Giovanni Baglione
dc.subject	Historiography
dc.subject	Jacopo Ligozzi
dc.subject	Madonna del Fuoco
dc.subject	Miraculous images
dc.subject	Woodcut

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Il sonno della Storia produce miti

Il Seicento e le origini della xilografia

Lorenzo Gigante Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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The scarce space that Giorgio Vasari dedicates in his Vite to the woodcut technique meant a long exclusion of wood engraving from Italian artistic historiography, a silence that survived its author for at least two centuries. Only from the second half of the 18th century did a debate on the origins of woodcut begin to develop in Italy. However, the void of historiography was partly filled between the 16th and 17th centuries by significant episodes of interest in 15th-century woodcut, linked not so much to their artistic aspect, but rather to their devotional one. The analysis of a series of cases highlights a certain need at the time to deal with the origins of woodcut. Despite the silence of the official treatises, responses offered often surprising results.

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May 13, 2022

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Nov. 25, 2021

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978-88-6969-588-9

Keywords: Giorgio Vasari • Madonna del Fuoco • Jacopo Ligozzi • Giovanni Baglione • Historiography • Woodcut • Miraculous images

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