From the Painters’ Idea to Painting Idea: Zuccaro’s Dual Disegno for the Roman Academy of the Arts

Serge Trottein (1, 2, 3)

1 Centre Jean Pépin
2 ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris
3 PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

The Accademia di San Luca in Rome was born in 1593 from a double project of its founder Federico Zuccaro (c. 1540-1609), a dual disegno, both internal and external (to use Zuccaro’s own terms), theoretical as well as practical: a philosophical teaching, directed toward the artists of the new academy, and a didactic painted program in his Roman palazzo, the first location of the new institution he established. Our project is to study them in a parallel manner and from a philosophical perspective, showing how the multi-faceted concept of disegno, developed in L’Idea de’ Pittori, Scultori ed Architetti, constituted an essential moment in a Roman history of the Idea, between earlier Renaissance art theories and XVIIIth-century theories of representation and aesthetics.

Mots clés: Disegno; Zuccaro; Renaissance aesthetics; history of the Idea

Domaines: Philosophie; Art et histoire de l'art; Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Serge Trottein. From the Painters’ Idea to Painting Idea: Zuccaro’s Dual Disegno for the Roman Academy of the Arts. Early Modern Rome 4, Paolo Alei & Julia L. Hairston, Oct 2020, Rome, Italy. ⟨halshs-03097911⟩