American art historian Millard Meiss (1904-1975) studied the development and recurrence of slumbering figures in Venetian Renaissance art in the essay Sleep in Venice (1964, 1966), yet setting forth his theoretical contribution – based on the combination of formal analysis and iconological approach. The sources of his interpretation of mythical sleeping maidens could be traced back to the Warburg school – namely to Fritz Saxl’s research on myth – and to Panofsky’s coeval seminal work on the renascences in Western art. Therefore, the critical fortune of Meiss’ fascinating article is closely related to the wider acceptance of his investigation on the interplay of form and content

Sonno a Venezia: Millard Meiss e l’interpretazione iconologica del mito

COOKE, JENNIFER
2011-01-01

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American art historian Millard Meiss (1904-1975) studied the development and recurrence of slumbering figures in Venetian Renaissance art in the essay Sleep in Venice (1964, 1966), yet setting forth his theoretical contribution – based on the combination of formal analysis and iconological approach. The sources of his interpretation of mythical sleeping maidens could be traced back to the Warburg school – namely to Fritz Saxl’s research on myth – and to Panofsky’s coeval seminal work on the renascences in Western art. Therefore, the critical fortune of Meiss’ fascinating article is closely related to the wider acceptance of his investigation on the interplay of form and content
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