Italian Baroque Art

Herausgeber: Dixon, Susan M

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Produktbeschreibung

This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian art from 1600-1750, highlighting the key debates with which art historians continue to grapple. Explores themes including: style or the visuality of art; artistic practices and production; artistic communication as projected and experienced; and artists' interactions with the ancient world and with the new sciences Examines the work of key painters, architects and sculptors from this period, including Caravaggio, Bernini, Guarini and Poussin Published in the expanding "Blackwell Anthologies in Art History" series

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Grandeur, intensity, passion, and motion - these are the defining characteristics of art created during the Baroque period in 17th and early 18th-century Italy. This rich and turbulent era heralds the Age of Enlightenment, and Italian art engages closely with key intellectual debates of the period, including the secular vs. the sacred; the role of the individual within a Catholic state; and the rise of cultural politics over military might. This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian art from 1600-1750, highlighting key debates with which art historians continue to grapple. Its essays explore the concept of style or the visuality of art; the creation and utilization of art; artistic communication as projected and experienced; and artists' interactions with the ancient world and the new sciences. Italian Baroque Art is an innovative, intellectual, and instructional collection for students and lovers of 17th and 18th-century art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 168mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781405139670
• ISBN-10: 1405139676
• Artikelnr.: 22955507

Autorenporträt

Susan M. Dixon is Associate Professor of Art History at University of Tulsa, Okalahoma.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Appearances.

1. What is Baroque? (Erwin Panofsky).

2. The Idea of the Painter, the Sculptor and the Architect(Pietro Bellori Giovan).

3. Fighting with Style (Phillip Sohm).

4. Bernini's Conception of the Visual Arts: 'Un BelComposto' (Irving Lavin).

5. Ars Tornandi: Baroque Architecture and the Lathe (JosephConnors).

6. A Taste for Tiepolo (Alpers, Svetlana and MichaelBaxandall).

Part II: Artistic Practice, Production andConsumption.

7. Practice in the Carracci Academy (GailFeigenbaum).

8. Artemisia in Her Father's House (PatriziaCavazzini).

9. Disegni, Bozzetti, Legnetti and Modelli in Roman SeicentoSculpture (Jennifer Montagu).

10. Architects and Clods: The Emergence of Urban Planning in theContext of Palace Architecture in Seventeenth-Century Rome(Dorothy Metzger Habel).

11. The Mechanics of Seventeenth-Century Patronage (FrancisHaskell).

12. Scrambling for Scudi: Notes on Painters' Earnings inEarly Baroque Rome (Richard Spear).

13. The Marketing of Pietro Testa's Poetic Inventions(Francesco Consagra).

14.Inside the Palace: People and Furnishings (PatriciaWaddy).

Part III: Meaning: Conceived and Received.

15. A Comment on the Iconography of Pietro da Cortona'sBarberini Ceiling (Walter Vitzthum).

16.Seeing the Shroud: Guarini's Reliquary Chapel in Turinand the Ostentation of a Dynastic Relic (John BeldonScott).

17. Myth and the New Science: Vico, Tiepolo, and the Language ofthe Optimates (Christopher Drew Armstrong).

18.Problems of the Theme (Rudolf Wittkower).

19. Devotion and Desire: The Reliquary Chapel of Maria Maddalenade'Pazzi (Karen-Edis Barzman).

20. Pastoralism in the Roman Baroque Villa and in Claude Lorrain(Myths and Realities of the Roman Campagna: Mirka Benes).

Part IV: Critique of the Past and the New Science.

21. The Role of Classical Models in Bernini's and Poussin'sPreparatory Work (Rudolf Wittkower).

22. The Greek Style and the Prehistory of Neoclassicism(Charles Dempsey).

23. Piranesi and Francesco Bianchini: Capricci in theService of Pre-Scientific Archaeology (Susan M. Dixon).

24. Cigoli's Immacolata and Galileo's Moon: Astronomy and theVirgin in Early Seicento Rome (Steven F. Ostrow).

25. The Fate of Pictures: Appearance, Truth, and Ambiguity(David Freedberg).

26. Lodoli on Function and Representation (JosephRykwert).

Rezensionen

"Scholarly and thorough." [Four star rating] Art Times

"Old classics and new team up in this exciting anthology thatwill serve students and scholars alike for years to come. TheSeicento field is not only represented here by broad discussions ofstyle, art theory, and patronage but also by fascinating casestudies of artistic practice, gender, science, and the art market .. . A shot of adrenalin for this important area of art history."David M. Stone, University of Delaware

"Those of us working in baroque studies are lucky to have someof the best scholars and essayists in the discipline of art historywriting about European, and specifically Italian, art of the 17thand 18th centuries; we are doubly lucky that Susan Dixon hasgathered together so many of them for this volume." VernonHyde-Minor, University of Colorado at Boulder