Presumed think about the painting: Roland Fréart

The think about the taste of writer about the painting is note, and it is note above all for Vasari Life’s, that has privileged Michelangelo(1475-1564) on other painters and artist, and he has privileged the Tuscan artists on other; but that this opinion came from France it is may strange; Roland Fréart de Chambray(1606-1676), French writer is an author of treats about the architecture and painting, but alone a theoretical, because he has never drown something or painted or other artistic task. A his famous treatise is about the Perfection of painter, that he has written about the classic painting, and it represents the extreme try to defense a pictorial classicism that is a very representation of selection of painting between good and wreck; but we can analyze some step: “It is a question very curious to know because the painting is so fall from high perfection where it was…to seen today the weak tried of its factures in confront to ancient very admirable and of this today is alone the widow…”, he came to Rome during 1640, and in Rome, although the painter is very much, of ancient painting isn’t something, hence it is the judge of somebody that has seen alone the ancient sculpture, and no certainly painting. More ridiculous is second step: “For me I haven’t doubt that the principal cause of this decadence  is alone the despise that during the ignorance and barbarism of reigns of low empire, that has so degraded it from ancient nobility, that from the first grade that it has had among the sciences now is work more vulgar, that shows very good the failed of intellects during last centuries…”; the founder of Futurism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti(1876-1944), loved repeat: “The words in liberty”, in regard the poetry of Futurism, now the words in liberty are, but de Chambrays isn’t the futurist is alone a burk in liberty, very free, because the confront to ancient painting he could not make because isn’t ancient painting, as above said, in Rome, and the scant ancient painting is today in Pompeii, but it was discovered from 1748, and Fréart de Chambray was died, fortunately, because it is wickedness? No it is despise for incompetence and presumption, that in these treat are predominant. The specialist of ridiculous follows his research, because for think and therefore to write these balls is necessary a research very demanding, the step: “The painting has had this disgrace that every written of ancient painters, and books of teaching while more excellent painters in ancient has given to public for understanding of their art are buried by time…”, this propositions I think that is punishable through the capital pain, because it is the ball more great that history has heard, never and never a painter during ancient time has written a treatise about the painter; in fact Fréart didn’t mention the titles, very cunning, but these words demonstrate also that Fréart hasn’t read Vasari and other painters that in stead has written about the technical art of painting; thereupon we are read an ignorant that speaks about arguments that didn’t know, very compliment.

Alessandro Lusana     

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