瓦萨里与米开朗琪罗——《围困佛罗伦萨》中的战争、城市、艺术家

Vasari and Michelangelo:The War,City and Artist in The Siege of Florence

《围困佛罗伦萨》是文艺复兴时期关于佛罗伦萨城市景观最重要的画作,由瓦萨里工作室完成,其主题为文艺复兴史上一场重要的战争。画作的历史背景、内容、赞助人与画家的关系等各个层面都具有鲜明的时代性。画家通过构图经营,将这些不同的层面密切结合在一起,并将该战事中具有特殊意义的艺术家米开朗琪罗与赞助人美第奇家族之间的关系巧妙地表现出来。该画作对于文艺复兴城市空间的塑造、战争与风景画的结合模式有着深入的探讨,更为隐晦的则是画家与米开朗琪罗的私人情感关系的图像化,而正是最后一点使得该画作呈现出与其他文艺复兴同类画作完全不同的气息。因此,该画作也成为探讨文艺复兴文化丰富的内在世界的一个重要索引。

The Siege of Florence is the most important Renaissance painting about Florentine urban landscape.Completed by Vasari’s studio,it is about an important war in the history of the Renaissance.The painting has distinct characteristics of times reflected in many aspects,including their historical context,content,and the relationship between the patron and the painter.These different aspects are integrated closely through the painter’s composition to represent the relationship between the artist Michelangelo and his patron,the Medici family,who had special significance in that battle.The painting is an in-depth exploration of the shaping of Renaissance urban space and the combination mode of war and landscape painting,and more subtly,the pictorialization of the painter’s personal emotional relationship between with Michelangelo,and it is this last point that gives the painting a completely different air from other Renaissance paintings of its kind.As such,the painting serves as an important index for exploring the rich inner world of Renaissance culture.