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From Alberti's virtù to the virtuoso Michelangelo. questions on a concept that moved from ethics to aesthetics through drawing

Eduardo Côrte-Real Susana Oliveira

pp. 83-93

Abstract

This paper reflects on Virtue as a key concept at the source of the common, and still prevalent, classification of drawings as bad or good, which shifted from the moral or Ethical to the Aesthetics domain between 1400 and 1600. It is suggested that clarity and control were characteristics of goodness in a particular period, while fastness and chance were characteristics of goodness in subsequent times, yet both revealing the projections of the ethical over the aesthetic.

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Published in:

(2011) Disegno. Rivista di estetica 47.

Pages: 83-93

DOI: 10.4000/estetica.1959

Full citation:

Côrte-Real Eduardo, Oliveira Susana (2011) „From Alberti's virtù to the virtuoso Michelangelo. questions on a concept that moved from ethics to aesthetics through drawing“. Rivista di estetica 47, 83–93.