Exercise for Mind and Body: Giulio Mancini, Collecting, and the Beholding of Landscape Painting in the Seventeenth Century

This article explores the intellectual foundations for the development of princely art collections, and of Italian picture galleries in particular, as spaces for combined physical and mental exercise and recreation. This study then establishes the relationship between the therapeutic function of pic...

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Published inRenaissance quarterly Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 1167 - 1207
Main Author Gage, Frances
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge The Renaissance Society of America 22.12.2008
Renaissance Society of America
Cambridge University Press
Subjects
Art collecting
Art history
Art, Renaissance
Collections
Dio Chrysostom (40?-112?)
Embodiment
Exercise
Health aspects
History
Landscape paintings
Mancini, Giulio
Methods
Painting (Art)
Palaces
Physicians
Psychological aspects
Renaissance art
Renaissance period
Renaissance philosophy
Sadness
Studies
Treatises
Visual artists
Walking
Works
United Kingdom
Italy
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Summary:This article explores the intellectual foundations for the development of princely art collections, and of Italian picture galleries in particular, as spaces for combined physical and mental exercise and recreation. This study then establishes the relationship between the therapeutic function of picture galleries and the manner in which landscape paintings produced for princely collectors at this moment in Italy embodied ideals of both exercise and repose.
ISSN:0034-4338
1935-0236
DOI:10.1353/ren.0.0366