Garcilaso de la Vega o la sugestión de la imagen

Abstract

A reading of Garcilaso de la Vega’s poetry, with the help of the contemporary praxis and the theory of painting, opens new perspectives of interpretation which will be sketched in this paper. After proposing a short examination of some formulations of the ut pictura poesis at the ending of the Quattrocento and beginning of the Cinquecento, along with some of Leon Battista Alberti’s precepts, three pictorial «motives» of Garcilaso’s poetry are analysed: the curly hair in the wind, the branches of the tree as equivalent to human arms, and the highly suggestive image of the sleeping nymph.

Keywords

• Alberti Leon Battista
• Cranach padre Lucas
• Garcilaso de la Vega
• Ninfa dormida
• Poliziano Ángelo
• Quintiliano