Changing Forms: Mantegna's Poietics in theCamera Picta
Jérémie Koering
Hidden in the vegetal ornament of one pilasters Camera Picta, Mantegna placed his self-portrait form a leafy mask. In so doing, he introduced sign authorship at heart germinative process. This essay reconsiders insertion as an image generative power artist. Together with room's dedicatory inscription (in particular term absoluvit), date 1465 inscribed marble, well several pictorical inventions signalling porosity between art and nature, secret, changing subtle poietical programme Picta can be revealed.
Art History