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Art as Rebirth 83in view of consolidating the notion ‘‘con ordine filosofico.’’ 70 What fallsinto place here is a veritable gnosology—and not an aesthetics or aphenomenology. It invokes the authority of Aristotle, promising toexplain the ‘‘name’’ of disegno, its definition, its properties, its kinds,its necessity. Distinguishing the disegno esterno from the disegno interno,it justifies the primacy of the second through the criteria of the clearand distinct Idea. Thus disegno and Idea become completely indistinguishable:‘‘If, in this treatise . . . I do not use the word ‘intention’ aslogicians and philosophers do, or ‘model’ and ‘idea’ as theologians do. . . that is because I speak as a painter and address myself primarilyto painters, sculptors, and architects, who have need of the knowledgeand assistance of disegno in order to work properly.’’ 71But we must not let this appeal to the painter’s craft obscure theradical nature of the concept. Disegno, henceforth, no longer meansthe idea expressed in the hand or the intelligible in the sensible. Itmeans the Idea alone; it is that Idea that subsumes both the painter’sintentions and his act of painting. Zuccari, then, goes much fartherthan Vasari. Moreover, he reproaches him for the ‘‘serious error’’ ofhaving spoken of disegno as if it were something that could be acquiredby practice ...Ifdrawing is the Idea, then it is innate: whichmeans it is to be understood as a faculty of the soul or as an a priori.It does not help the artist (non pur aiuta l’artefice) because it is the verycause of art as such (ma è causa dell’arte istessa). 72 And in this logic ofmetaphysical slippage, which reveals its many ambiguities on closereading, disegno is finally acknowledged to be that which is commonto humans, angels, and God: a kind of soul. Then, Zuccari parses theword for us by writing it as ‘‘DI-SEGN-O’’ and reconstituting it as‘‘segno di Dio,’’ sign of God. ‘‘It is quite clear by itself,’’ he concludes—adding rather boldly that disegno is itself ‘‘almost another created divinity’’(quasi . . . un altro nume creato), created by God the better tosignify himself among angels and men. 73 Ten metaphysical attributescomplete the system:The ten attributes of internal and external Disegno: (1) Internalobject common to all human intelligences. (2) Ultimateterm of all achieved human knowledge. (3) Form expressive