Grazia and Terribilità: Charismatizations of the Artist as a Heroic Phenomenon in the Early Modern Period (D04*)

• Subject Area: Art History
• Term: from 2016 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 181750155

The goal of this project is to demarcate the parameters of grazia und terribilità as a basic pattern for conceptions of the artist still common today in art literature and in artists¿ (self-)portraits between ca. 1500 and ca. 1800. The field of tension between poverty and violence will be explained in its functions and effects as a typical phenomenon of the heroic. Moreover, a consideration of the many followers of exceptional artists will enable a more precise description of charismatization processes within the frame of reference of artists, art writers, and patrons. An area of emphasis will be works of the early modern period in which artists stylize themselves as the youthful hero David.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 948: Heroes - Heroisations - Heroisms. Transformations and Conjunctures from Antiquity to the Modern Age
• Applicant Institution: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Anna Schreurs-Morét