Vol. 2 No. 1 (2024): Change
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In Search of a Hybrid Antiquity, circa 1516

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  • Mark Rakatansky
Mark Rakatansky
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York City

Published 2024-06-14

Keywords

  • Bibbiena,
  • Giulio Romano,
  • grotesque,
  • Horace,
  • hybridity,
  • Raphael,
  • transformative signification,
  • Vitruvius
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Rakatansky, M. (2024). In Search of a Hybrid Antiquity, circa 1516. Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy , 2(1), 57–91. Retrieved from https://khorein.ifdt.bg.ac.rs/index.php/ch/article/view/42

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Abstract

Architectural and pictorial modes developed in Raphael’s Workshop and subsequently in Giulio Romano’s work are investigated here in part as a reaction in part to the strictures of Vitruvius against the transspecies transfiguration of grotesque ornamentation. It is generally stated that the Renaissance sought to bring back the Antiquity, but one could ask which Antiquity, or rather which Antiquities. A close-reading of Vitruvius’ and (seemingly) Horace’s objections to such hybrid manifestations of transformative change reveals contradictions and affordances that Raphael and Giulio will intensify in the hybrid transmedial modes of their art and architecture developed within the political and religious changes of that time.

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