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Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa , one of Renaissance Italy’s most complex sculptures, is the subject of this study, which proposes that the statue’s androgynous appearance is paradoxical. Symbolizing the male ruler overcoming a female adversary, the Perseus legitimizes patriarchal power; but the physical similarity between Cellini’s characters suggests the hero rose through female agency. Dr. Corretti argues that although not a surrogate for powerful Medici women, Cellini’s Medusa may have reminded viewers that Cosimo I de’ Medici’s power stemmed in part from maternal influence. Drawing upon a vast body of art and literature, Dr. Corretti concludes that Cellini and his contemporaries knew the Gorgon as a version of the Earth Mother, whose image is found in art for Medici women.

Gorgons (Greek mythology) in art. --- Art --- Political aspects --- Cellini, Benvenuto, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Florence (Italy) --- Politics and government

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Cet ouvrage propose de montrer les liens de parenté qui unissent le mythe et l’art non dans un rapport d’illustration, mais dans celui d’une action conjointe sur la vie. L’ambition est aussi d’éprouver des méthodologies innovantes et peu usitées en histoire de l’art. Dans La Pensée sauvage, Claude Lévi-Strauss dessine les traits du mythologique sous le prisme d’une anthropologie et d’un rapport particulier au monde. L’art et le mythe entretiennent des liens de proximité parce qu’ils sont langages. Ils sont aussi deux pôles qui suscitent des sentiments et des actions connexes, parce qu’ils se vivent. Contrairement à la légende, le mythe est à la fois un déni du religieux - il place l’âge d’or dans un futur à inventer et non dans un passé originel et perdu -, il est aussi une recomposition d’agencements qui tente d’exprimer au plus près et au plus juste une certaine humanité. Nous retrouvons dans cette définition l’oscillation qui sous-tend l’œuvre d’art lorsqu’elle n’est pas « domestiquées à des fins de rendement »... À la fin de ce volume, des entretiens inédits avec des personnalités importantes du monde de l’art : Pierre Restany, Dado, Alain Joubert et Vladimir Veličković.

Art and mythology --- Art et mythologie --- History --- Histoire --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Visual Arts - General --- Mythology and art --- Mythology in art --- Mythology --- art --- Histoire de l'art --- mythe

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Women poets. --- Women artists. --- Art and mythology. --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Archetype (Psychology) --- Symbolism (Psychology) --- Feminism and the arts. --- Arts, Modern --- Arts and feminism --- Arts --- Symbolism in psychology --- Psychoanalysis --- Psychology --- Subconsciousness --- Imagery, Mental --- Images, Mental --- Mental imagery --- Mental images --- Imagination --- Visualization --- Mythology and art --- Mythology in art --- Mythology --- Artists, Women --- Women as artists --- Artists --- Poetesses --- Poets, Women --- Women as poets --- Poets --- Women authors

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This volume consists consists of forty contributions written by an internationally renowned selection of scholars. The authors adopt an interdisciplinary methodology, examining both literary and archaeological sources, and a comparative perspective that transgresses national, chronological, and cultural boundaries, in order to investigate the nature of the links between text and image. This multifaceted approach to the study of ancient artifacts enables the authors to treat art and artistic production as activities that do not merely mirror social or cultural relationships but rather, and more significantly, as activities that create social and cultural relationships. The essays in this book are motivated by their authors' belief that there is no simple direct link between art and myths, art and text, or art and ritual, and that art should not be delegated to the role of a by-product of a literate culture. Instead, the contextual and symbolic analyses of artifacts and representations offered in this volume elucidate how art actively shaped myth, how it changed texts, how it transformed ritual, and how it altered the course of local, regional, and Mediterranean histories.

Art and mythology. --- Art and society. --- Pottery, Greek --- Pottery, Roman --- Classical antiquities --- Art et mythologie --- Art et société --- Céramique grecque --- Céramique romaine --- Antiquités gréco-romaines --- Mythology and art --- Mythology in art --- Art and anthropology. --- Art and literature. --- Antiquities. --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Archaeology --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Mythology --- Literature and art --- Literature and painting --- Literature and sculpture --- Painting and literature --- Sculpture and literature --- Aesthetics --- Literature --- Anthropology and art --- Anthropology --- Social aspects --- Classical art. --- Greek religion. --- gender. --- iconography.