Ella & Eystein Magnus Fellow Sissel Grøndal (University of Oslo) presents her MA project on the Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1969-1943) and his travels in Italy. Under which conditions and in what way did his Italian experience inspire and influence (and thus change) Vigeland's artistic expression and perception of art? His notebooks and letters provide a significant empirical basis both contextually and formally to suggest an influence from the Early Italian Renaissance.
Gustav Vigeland's encounter with the Early Italian Renaissance may have had a greater impact on his artistry in his formative early years both formally and iconologically in terms of the Florentine Renaissance Humanism than what has previously been assumed.
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