{"id":17,"date":"2017-01-19T17:18:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T17:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litcaricature.wordpress.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2024-10-02T08:43:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T08:43:10","slug":"literature-and-caricature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2017\/01\/19\/literature-and-caricature\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abOrlando Furioso\u00bb and caricature"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of the 17th<\/sup> century, the painter and engraver Antonio Tempesta realised a series of six caricatures inspired by the characters of Ludovico Ariosto\u2019s Orlando furioso<\/em>. Tempesta reveals the comic potential of Ariosto\u2019s work by applying deformation not to the figures that Ariosto had already represented as comical, but to the characters which in the poem are examples of perfection and beauty. The visual interpretation both translates and extends the humoristic imagination entailed in Ariosto\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

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A. Tempesta, L\u2019amorosa Angelica e Il bellissimo Medoro, 16th\/17th Century. Source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A. Tempesta, Il coraggioso Ruggiero e La bella Bradamante, 16th\/17th Century. Source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.<\/p><\/div>\n

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At the beginning of the 17th century, the painter and engraver Antonio Tempesta realised a series of six caricatures inspired by the characters of Ludovico Ariosto\u2019s Orlando furioso. Tempesta reveals the comic potential of Ariosto\u2019s work by applying deformation not … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,17,10,1],"tags":[20,22,24,26,27,28,29,32,33],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16th-century","category-17th-century","category-images","category-literary-characters","category-prints","category-uncategorized","tag-angelica","tag-couple","tag-face","tag-half-lenght-portrait","tag-italy","tag-man","tag-medoro","tag-profile","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}