TASSO UND DIE BILDENDEN KÜNSTE

With La Gerusalemme liberata, Torquato Tasso revived the ancient genre of epic poetry. Already during his lifetime, his work became subject to an intensive discourse on the images used - both the military events of the crusades, and the tragic love stories moved a rtists and the public. At the same time, Discorsi dell'arte poetica became the blueprint for the theory and practice of historic vis ual art. Around 1800, the focus finally moved to the personality of the poet as a model of the modern artist who suffers in and from the worl...[Read more]