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

• Published in: Renaissance quarterly Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 1167 - 1207
• Main Author: Gage, Frances
• Format: Book Review Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...