this isn't really right. Romanticism was particularly interested in a certain kind of cult of the author as hero, but Milton was celebrated in his own time (well before the 19th century). So were Pope and Samuel Johnson and Voltaire.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/959431408061054976 …
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Replying to @nberlat
Not in the same way. The art & life were seen as separate, with say, Paradise Lost celebrated as a work of skill, not product of Milton's specificity.
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I don't think that's really true. just read a Da Vinci bio, and the way he was treated had a lot of the hallmarks of what we'd recognize as celebrity.
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May have been a slow shift from one to the other over time...?
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Agree with Noah, but guys please, 'Leonardo', not 'Da Vinci' -- the latter is just a designation of where he was from, not a family name.
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Greek artists were pretty celebrated too, weren't they? I don't think Sophocles was thought of as a craftsperson really (though you'd know a lot better than I would.)
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Yeah, Pliny celebrates the great Greek artists. His mythographic narratives became models for renaissance artists.
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I think there's a difference between celebrating artists & seeing their biography as central to work. Roger Sale makes this point here: http://stor.org/stable/3849036?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents …
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