The Classification of the Visual Arts in the Renaissance

摘要: The established view of sixteenth-century art criticism supposes that a major conflict lies between Venetian colore and the Florentine tradition disegno.1 Lately, this has been questioned on two counts: first, opposition is really seventeenth-century construct, second, Renaissance issues revolve around natural artificial varieta.2 Apparently even more fundamental are involved. This essay addresses epistemological conflicts concerning proper classification painting, sculpture, architecture implicit in criticism. underlying problem can be stated following way: how does one select criteria to judge excellence artistic productions if each individual depends discipline which establishes principles for its subordinates?