The Faun in the Garden: Michelangelo and the Poetic Origins of Italian Renaissance Art

Sequel To Barolsky's Vasari Trilogy And Pendant Volume In Particular To Michelangelo's Nose, This Book Continues The Author's Examination Of The Poetic Imagination Of Michelangelo's Autobiography In Relation To His Art And Poetry. With His Usual Brio, Barolsky Suggests That Michelangelo's Concerns With Poetic Origins Are Linked In Subtle, Diverse Ways To The Meanings Of Botticelli's Primavera, Signorelli's Pan, Piero Di Cosimo's Prometheus Pictures, Raphael's Parnassus, And Titan's Fete Champetre. Focusing On The Unexpected Importance For Michelangelo Of The Pastoral, Barolsky Illuminates The Role Of Ovid Both In The Artist's Biography And In His Theory And Practice Of Art. Conceiving His Book As A Contribution To Our Understanding Of Poetic Imagination In The Age Of The Renaissance, Barolsky Elaborates Here On His Previous Discussion Of Renaissance, Barolsky Elaborates Here On His Previous Discussion Of Renaissance Biography In The Tradition Of Boccaccio's Fables. 1. The Poetic Origins Of The Artist -- 2. The Pastoral Origins Of Art -- 3. The Autobiography Of Poetry -- 4. Inventions Of The Self -- 5. The Painted Persona Of The Pastoral Poet -- 6. The Pastoral Of Stone -- 7. The Poetry Of The Non Finito -- 8. The Grotesque And The Pastoral -- 9. Versions Of The Pastoral -- 10. The Myth Of Michelangelo And Il Magnifico -- 11. Art As Deception -- 12. The Fine Art Of Lying -- 13. The Fabrication Of A Life -- 14. Biography As Art -- 15. The Metamorphoses Of Michelangelo -- 16. Elysian Fields. Paul Barolsky. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [173]-174) And Index.