Oh Brother, What Art Thou? Beauty versus Cruelty in Cain and Abel  

Oleh:

Marshall, Christopher R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Arts and Sciences vol. 06 no. 02 (2013), page 167-176.
Topik: Cain and Abel; Iconography; Renaissance and baroque art; Wrestling; Ancient and renaissance
Fulltext: 06_02_14_Marshall.pdf (748.34KB)

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This article will consider the creative solutions developed by Renaissance and Baroque artists in relation to the subject of Cain and Abel with particular reference to the large number of depictions from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that focus on the bodies of Cain and Abel locked together as monumentally framed, struggling nudes. It will view the interest of Renaissance artists in this aspect of the subject as reflecting a sixteenth and seventeenth century fascination with violence and internecine dysfunctionality, on the one hand, as well as with the protocols of ancient and modern hand to hand combat, on the other. The subject of Cain and Abel gave Renaissance and Baroque viewers the chance to indulge momentarily in the dreaded taboo of the dark underbelly of the subject of brotherly love – and to consider its terrible beauty alongside its more apparent moral infamy.

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