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Dall'illusione alla presenza: la nascita del medioevo Occidentale

Title in English From the Illusion to the Presence: the Birth of the Western Middle Ages
Authors

FOLETTI Ivan

Year of publication 2018
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description Speaking of the "birth of the Western Middle Ages" may seem pretentious, first of all because it is difficult to define a single "Middle Age", but also because the caesura of history are always too complex. The avant-gardes of the late nineteenth century that overturn the European visual culture (and not only) are those that Solženicyn calls the "knots of history": moments in which past and present are intertwined opening up absolutely new and unexpected ways. This paperr aims to present one of these knots in the history of European art: it is a real aesthetic revolution that proposes an alternative illusory visualization of the Roman world, around the year 500. Thanks to external inputs - the arrival of the "migrants" "Goths - and a new image theory, the West discovers a radically different aesthetic that will give images unprecedented power.
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