Poetry and Painting: Giovan Battista Marino and the "Marvelous" Passion

Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Borghese Gallery in Rome and dedicated to the poet Giovan Battista Marino and his relationship with the artists of the Renaissance and Baroque period.

After the season of the great Renaissance painters, the prestige of the figurative arts grew as never before in history. During the 16th century, the artist went from being a common craftsman to holding a status equal to that of the greatest intellectuals of his time. The relationship between poetry and ...