TY - JOUR
T1 - Vite e carriere di pittori con sordità prelinguale attivi in Italia nel periodo 1590–1720
AU - Lo Conte, Angelo
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee of Hong Kong under Grant [12624122]; and by the Renaissance Society of America through the RSA-Samuel H. Kress Research Fellowship in Renaissance Art History.
Publisher copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023/7/3
Y1 - 2023/7/3
N2 - This essay investigates the careers of prelingually deaf painters active in Italy in the period 1590–1720. By looking at early modern biographical accounts, archival documents, works of art, and Renaissance poetry, this contribution challenges the stereotype that presents people with deafness as outcasts and emphasises that the consideration of intersectional factors was essential to how early modern people responded to impairment. The present study retraces the evolution of the historical debate on the educability of deaf people and analyses interconnections between deafness and art practice. Through the careers of five artists, Ercole Sarti from Ferrara, Giuseppe Badaracco from Genoa, Filippo Ceppaluni from Naples, Aurelio Martelli from Siena, and Giovanni Lo Coco from Acireale, their artworks, and documents pertaining to their lives, the study explores how each of them asserted their own profession, identity, and social position via art practice.
AB - This essay investigates the careers of prelingually deaf painters active in Italy in the period 1590–1720. By looking at early modern biographical accounts, archival documents, works of art, and Renaissance poetry, this contribution challenges the stereotype that presents people with deafness as outcasts and emphasises that the consideration of intersectional factors was essential to how early modern people responded to impairment. The present study retraces the evolution of the historical debate on the educability of deaf people and analyses interconnections between deafness and art practice. Through the careers of five artists, Ercole Sarti from Ferrara, Giuseppe Badaracco from Genoa, Filippo Ceppaluni from Naples, Aurelio Martelli from Siena, and Giovanni Lo Coco from Acireale, their artworks, and documents pertaining to their lives, the study explores how each of them asserted their own profession, identity, and social position via art practice.
KW - Art practice and disability
KW - Italian baroque art
KW - deaf studies
KW - disability studies
KW - early modern art and visual culture
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U2 - 10.1080/00751634.2023.2258685
DO - 10.1080/00751634.2023.2258685
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0075-1634
VL - 78
SP - 305
EP - 327
JO - Italian Studies
JF - Italian Studies
IS - 3
ER -
