Circa 1642 : gli artisti intorno a Galileo / Alessandro Tosi.
Abstract:
What changes occurred in figurative arts with the death of Galileo in 1642? How were the example and intellectual legacy of the scientist seen and interpreted by artists in Florence and the other cultural milieus of Italy? This paper will embark on a careful analysis of how and to what degree the thought, the work, and the myth of Galileo influenced the choices and orientations of the visual arts during the middle decades of the seventeenth century, from 1642 to the brief flowering of the Accademia del Cimento (1657-1667). Through a series of emblematic events, the radical changes in the figurative culture of the period generated by Galileo's conquests will be reconstructed - changes of which the actors in the story were fully aware, a modernism that took shape through a new definition of the relationship between the arts and sciences.
Letture galileiane (2006 : Pisa) Conquista del visibile Galileo e le arti. p. 225-244