Redefining eclecticism in early modern Bolognese painting : ideology, practice, and criticism / Daniel M. Unger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unger, Daniel M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, Italian--History.

Painting, Italian.

Painting--Italy--Bologna--History.

Painting.

Painting, Modern.

History.

Italy--Bologna.

Physical Description:

231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This book focuses on the unique nature of early modern Bolognese painting that found its expression in stylistic diversity. The flourishing of different stylistic approaches in the Mannerist paintings of the previous generation evolved, at the turn the seventeenth century, in the work of the Bolognese painters into an approach best described as eclecticism, characterized by the combination of two or more styles in a single work of art. Eclectic was a major innovation and major contribution to the history of art. But it then also became a critical term that suffered much negative press. The book therefore also traces the role of eclecticism as a concept in the evolution of criticism and scholarship about the Bolognese school of painting over 250 years, showing how the dramatically vacillating attitudes towards this concept shaped the historical view of the Bolognese painters, ultimately having a tremendous dampening impact on our understanding of seventeenth-century art.

Contents:

1 Denning Eclecticism p. 33

Assimilated Eclecticism - Vasari's Raphael p. 41

Arbitrary Eclecticism p. 46

Non-Assimilated Eclecticism - A Definition p. 48

2 Ideology p. 57

Gabriele Paleotti's Discourse on Sacred Images p. 62

A Pictorial Manifest: Alliance between Disegno and Colore p. 75

Carlo Cesare Malvasia and the Assemblage of Styles p. 88

The Terrestrial and Celestial Realms p. 106

Portraits of Saints: St. Carlo Borromeo's Effigy p. 128

Other Eclectic Paintings p. 141

Winckelmann's Introduction of Eclecticism into Artistic Discourse p. 160

The Nineteenth-Century juste milieu p. 168

The Dismissal of Eclecticism in the Twentieth Century p. 179.

ISBN:

9462986010

9789462986015

OCLC:

1057785596