La 'Porta dell'Onore': descrizione e commento dell'opera

[Autom. eng. transl.] In its extreme synthesis of word and image, La Porta dell'Onore by Albrecht Dürer is a work conceived according to a complex and rigorously formalized symbolism. However, it is not a dark work, because the various codes that structure it were basically shared by the parties involved, commissioners, writers, artists and, on the other hand, the recipients. The chapter analyzes analytically the seven parts in which the Arch is subdivided by the historian Stabius describing and commenting on the texts and images, both referring to the symbolic culture produced by the writers and artists of the court of Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg. In particular, the three openings of the arch refer to three virtues, honor-praise-nobility, which the Italian Humanism had ferried from the ancients and which the Renaissance was formulating for the new society of ancient regime.