\u2018A thousand portraits have been made of me in Rome\u2019: Giovan Battista Marino wrote this in 1623, when he returned to the city after a triumphant stay in Paris. Indeed, excellent artists made many portraits of the poet, such as the now-lost works by Caravaggio, Simon Vouet and Guido Reni. Amongst the surviving portraits, Frans Pourbus\u2019 splendid depiction stands out: he presents the poet as proud, with a book in his hand, a symbol of his success and poetic genius, the very thing that earned him his knighthood.
\nJust one year after the poet\u2019s death, the Florentine Francesco Furini would paint his \u2018manifesto\u2019 on the partnership between the sister-arts of Poetry and Painting, a concept that informed all of Marino\u2019s works.
\nIn truth, however, thanks to the great masters of Renaissance Italy \u2013 Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Correggio and Titian \u2013 sixteenth-,century Painting triumphed over Poetry\u2014\u2018a victory that was given eloquent testimony by the efforts of poets\u2019 sensual descriptions that were intended to compete with the [painters\u2019] brushes\u2019 (Praz). The \u2018favole\u2019 (mythological subjects) depicted by Raphael, Correggio, Titian, and later Luca Cambiaso and Jacopo Tintoretto, drawn from the myths described in canonical texts from antiquity, sealed in the Seicento the fate of these painted \u2018poems\u2019 which, as you will see in the following sections, consistently nourished Marino\u2019s poetic efforts and drove his appetite as a collector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018A thousand portraits have been made of me in Rome\u2019: Giovan Battista Marino wrote this in 1623, when he returned to the city after a triumphant stay in Paris. Indeed, excellent artists made many portraits of the poet, such as the now-lost works by Caravaggio, Simon Vouet and Guido Reni. Amongst the surviving portraits, Frans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-approfondimenti"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n