The Renaissance and the dream.
NMR| N° d'inventaire | 17563 |
| Format | 23.4 x 26.7 |
| Détails | 175 p., color illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
Long before the interpretations of psychoanalysis and the discoveries of neuroscience, what one might call the "ancien régime" of dreams is based on the idea that sleep and dreams connect us with the powers of the beyond. Thus, Renaissance men had to confront a formidable question: by escaping the constraints of their own bodies, can the dreamer enter into contact with the divine, or is he, on the contrary, delivered to foreign "demons"? The response of 15th and 16th century artists to an even more troubling question: how to represent what a dreamer dreams? is particularly fascinating. While some explore dreams as a revelation of another world, holy or infernal, while others use them to transfigure everyday life or show its erotic dimension, among the most demanding, it is perceived as a metaphor for art itself. This is what the exhibition presented at the Musée du Luxembourg illustrates. Bringing together famous artists such as Bosch, Dürer, Veronese and Greco, or lesser-known ones such as Mocetto and Zuccaro, it follows a journey which, from sleep to waking, from Night to Dawn, invites all to dream.
Long before the interpretations of psychoanalysis and the discoveries of neuroscience, what one might call the "ancien régime" of dreams is based on the idea that sleep and dreams connect us with the powers of the beyond. Thus, Renaissance men had to confront a formidable question: by escaping the constraints of their own bodies, can the dreamer enter into contact with the divine, or is he, on the contrary, delivered to foreign "demons"? The response of 15th and 16th century artists to an even more troubling question: how to represent what a dreamer dreams? is particularly fascinating. While some explore dreams as a revelation of another world, holy or infernal, while others use them to transfigure everyday life or show its erotic dimension, among the most demanding, it is perceived as a metaphor for art itself. This is what the exhibition presented at the Musée du Luxembourg illustrates. Bringing together famous artists such as Bosch, Dürer, Veronese and Greco, or lesser-known ones such as Mocetto and Zuccaro, it follows a journey which, from sleep to waking, from Night to Dawn, invites all to dream.