Beyond the division of light: Iconographic sources of Gaetano Previati, between preraphaelism and Rose-Croix
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Abstract
This article focuses on the iconographic sources of some major works by Gaetano Previati (1852-1920), from Maternity (1891), monumental painting shown in the 1st Triennale of Brera in Milan and the 1st Salon de la Rose- Croix in Paris, to a study for The Assumption (1901-1903). These paintings, realised in a crucial period for the history of idealistic symbolism, have been studied towards the impact of Italian Renaissance, the pre-Raphaelite painters and of Joséphin Péladan’s Rosicrucianism.
