Vincenzo Cartari

Title page from Le vere e nove imagini , 1615

Vincenzo Cartari (* 1531? In Reggio nell'Emilia ; † 1569) is an Italian mythographer and diplomat of the Renaissance .

Cartari was Jean Seznec According probably a protégé of the Dukes of Ferrara . In his work Imagini colla sposizione degli dei degli antichi ("Images depicting the gods of the ancients") from 1556 he mentions Lilio Gregorio Giraldi's work De deis gentium varia et multiplex historia , which was published in 1548, as one of his sources . Despite the success of this predecessor, Cartari's work also became popular due to its vivid woodcut depictions of the ancient gods, believed to have come from a certain Bolognino Zaltieri . It puts the emphasis on iconographyof the gods and explains their clothing, attitudes and attributes. Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo was to use this work for his part. The antiquarian and philologist Lorenzo Pignoria added notes and additions to the work in the editions from 1615 and, notably, a second part with images of the Indian gods ( Seconda Parte delle Imagini de gli Dei Indiani ), a short series of images of Mexican and Japanese deities. In his Teutsche Academie, Joachim von Sandrart refers to Cartari's work, which he published in 1680 in a translation that, surprisingly, has been provided with new illustrations.

Works

• Imagini colla sposizione degli dei degli antichi , Venice 1556, 3rd edition 1571 (with illustrations);
  • from 1615 with notes and Seconda Parte delle Imagini de gli Dei Indiani by Lorenzo Pignoria;
  • Reprint of the 1647 edition by Editrice Luna, Milan 2004;
  • Contemporary translation into German: Joachim von Sandrart, Iconologia deorum, or image of the gods worshiped by the ancients , Nuremberg: Christian Siegmund Froberger 1680;
  • Critical edition by G. Auzzas u. a., 1996

literature

• Jane Turner (Ed.): The Dictionary of Art , Index London / New York 1996, Vol. V, pp. 887f.
• John Mulryan: Translations and Adaptations of Vincenzo Cartari's Imagini and Natale Conti's Mythologiae : The Mythographic Tradition in the Renaissance , in: Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 1981, 272-83 [1] (PDF)
• M. Palma:  Cartari, Vincenzo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 20:  Carducci-Carusi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1977.
• Anna Schreurs: Vincenzo Cartari's images of the gods portrayed by Joachim von Sandrart , in: Hartmut Böhme / Christoph Rapp / Wolfgang Rösler (eds.): Translation and Transformation , files from the annual conference of the SFB 644 »Transformation of Antiquity« at the Humboldt University of Berlin, December 2005, Berlin 2007, pp. 475–523 Google books
• Jean Seznec : La survivance des dieux antiques. Essai sur le rôle de la tradition mythologique dans l'humanisme et dans l'art de la Renaissance (Studies of the Warburg Institute, 11), London: The Warburg Institute 1940; 2nd edition Paris: Flammarion 1980, reprint 1993 (German: The continued life of the ancient gods. The mythological tradition in humanism and in the art of the Renaissance , translated by H. Jatho, 1990)

Web links

Commons : Vincenzo Cartari  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Giornale Nuovo , entry from December 27, 2005 [2]
• Entry in sandrart.net [3]