Händel jako Apollo. Gloryfikacje kompozytora w literaturze i sztuce XVIII wieku
Handel as Apollo. The Composer’s Apotheoses in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Art

Summary/Abstract: Handel was one of the few Baroque composers to enjoy the status of a ‘deified’artist already in his lifetime. One still unresearched Handel-related topic is the history ofthe composer’s representations as the mythological Apollo, an ancient deity importantin modern-age aesthetics and considered as particularly suitable for artist apotheoses.This article presents a survey and interpretation of examples from eighteenth-centuryliterature and works of art in which Handel was directly compared to Apollo, or inwhich Apolline symbolism or the attributes of that god of music were employed toemphasise the composer’s status.

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