An exemplary humanist hybrid: Vasari's "Fraude" with reference to Bronzino's "Sphinx." (Giorgio Vasari and Agnolo di Cosimo a.k.a. Bronzino)

From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Giorgio Vasari's concept of Fraude and deceit is supplemented by Bronzino's depiction of the 'sphinx' in his painting 'The Exposure of Luxury.' The painting which depicts a virginal girl with the scales and tail of a snake menacingly hidden at the periphery of Venus and Cupid was largely symbolic of the antithetical literary devices utilized by artists. Dante's depiction of Fraud in his 'Inferno' and Vincenzo Cartari's manual 'Le Imagini degli Dei' also mandated influences in Renaissance aesthetic judgment.

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