Prospero Frescobaldi

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As a fictional Italian painter , musician and architect, Prospero Frescobaldi is the central protagonist in the novel Ardinghello and the blissful islands of Wilhelm Heinses, published in 1787 .

Prospero Frescobaldi comes from Heinse from the Tuscan noble families of Frescobaldi and Albizzi. In the novel he was a student of Giorgio Vasari and Bronzino , left his hometown early and moved to Venice, where he studied the works of Titian and made friends with Paolo Veronese . In Venice he was given his nickname Ardinghello , which gave the novel its title. After a fatal conflict, he later fled to Genoa and then settled again in Florence, where he entered the service of Grand Duke Francesco I de 'Medici in 1574 and worked as an architect and administrator of the princely art collections in the Uffizi .

Trivia

According to his own statement, the art scholar Matthias Oberli created the Wikipedia article on Prospero Frescobaldi in 2010 experimentally and deliberately incorrectly as an entry on a historical artist to investigate how the encyclopedia deals with the incorrect categorization. In 2016 he published his approach and the observation of the version history in an essay. In it, Oberli criticizes the lack of factual and content-related control by Wikipedia authors (e.g. checking whether Frescobaldi is listed in standard works such as Thieme-Becker ), the concentration on editorial improvements and the too careless release of the article on the fictional artist who himself became independent in the following years through additional keywording and independent additions by other Wikipedia authors.

literature

  • Wilhelm Heinse : Ardinghello and the blissful islands. 1787.
  • Matthias Oberli: Everyone their own Vasari? Artist biography and digital source criticism on the Internet, in: Beate Böckem, Olaf Peters & Barbara Schellewald (eds.): The biography - fashion or universal? On the history and concept of a genre in art history, writings on modern art historiography, 7) Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter 2016, pp. 275–284.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oberli 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Frescobaldi, Prospero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION fictional Italian painter, architect and musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH after 1578
Place of death Florence