La phantasía en la edad de oro de la literatura artística (siglos XV-XVII)

Classical German philosophy recognized in phantasia the fundamental intuitive power and Romanticism exalted it as the "absolute power" of poetry and art. But how was it conceived by artists and theorists in previous moments? To answer this question, Sigmund Méndez explores the vast European artistic literature of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, that is, the heterogeneous body of documents - ranging from the workshop manual to the extensive treatise or poetry - with which professional artists or connoisseurs tried to explain the modes of reproduction of reality and the generation of new forms in the visual arts. Analyzing texts from Cennini to Roger de Piles, passing through capital figures of the Renaissance such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Albert Dürer or Michelangelo and treatisers of Mannerism and Baroque as Lomazzo, Zuccaro, Van Mander or Pacheco, this research offers a both panoramic and detailed examination of a central concept of aesthetics in that golden and founding period for the creative unfolding and modern self-conception of art.