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The lives of paintings : presence, agency and likeness in Venetian art of the sixteenth century / Elsje van Kessel.
LIBRA ND621.V5 K47 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kessel, Elsje van, author.
- Series:
- Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus ; Bd. 18.
- Reihe Kunst und Wirkmacht
- Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus ; Bd. 18
- Reihe Kunst und Wirkmacht / Art and agency
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting, Italian--Italy--Venice--16th century--Themes, motives.
- Painting, Italian.
- Pictures--Psychological aspects.
- Pictures.
- Life in art.
- Soul in art.
- Art and society--Italy--Venice--History--16th century.
- Art and society.
- History.
- Themes, motives.
- Venice (Italy)--Civilization.
- Venice (Italy).
- Civilization.
- Painting, Italian--Themes, motives.
- Italy--Venice.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]
- Summary:
- "As this book shows, paintings in 16th-century Venice were often treated as living beings. On the basis of case studies, its author offers a detailed examination of the agency paintings and other two-dimensional images could exert. Grounded in the theoretical literature on the agency of material things, the book contributes to Venetian studies as well as engaging with wider debates on the attribution of life and presence to images and objects"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110485899
- 3110485893
- OCLC:
- 958782895
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