Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• GUIDO RUGGIERO

Titel

Laughter: Imagining Love, Lust, and Virtù in the Rinascimento

Ist Teil von

• Love and Sex in the Time of Plague, 2021, p.30

Ort / Verlag

Harvard University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Imagine yourself as a no-longer-young Florentine painter in the fourteenth century, painting frescoes with two of your comrades, Bruno and Buffalmacco, in the country villa of a powerful member of the Florentine popolo grosso—the big people or the people that really mattered in local parlance.¹ It is an excellent commission for a humble artisan, and you are happy for the opportunity to make some money and perhaps even show your budding mastery of perspective, which is making fellow artisans like Giotto seem more than mere wall painters. One morning, as you are taking a break to drink at the