Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Again on Piero di Cosimo

I think that the link I was making in a previous post:
Piero seems to link hunting and violence against animals with the origin of violence among human beings (see for instance the killing of the man on the right side of the painting)
is far from evident. It is much more natural to imagine that that scene represents a man killed by an animal during the hunt. Still, Piero's view of hunting seems negative: the various hunters look ferocious and savage, while the animals are showed as defenseless.
More on Piero di Cosimo as soon as I will read Panofsky.

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