Representing from life in seventeenth-century Italy / Sheila McTighe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McTighe, Sheila, author.

Series:

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 20.

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Italian--17th century.

Art, Italian.

Art, European--17th century.

Art, European.

Portrait drawing, Italian--17th century.

Portrait drawing, Italian.

Portrait painting, Italian--17th century.

Portrait painting, Italian.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

251 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]

Summary:

In drawing or painting from live models and real landscapes, more was at stake for artists in early modern Italy than achieving greater naturalism. To work with the model in front of your eyes, and to retain their identity in the finished work of art, had an impact on concepts of artistry and authorship, the authority of the image as a source of knowledge, the boundaries between repetition and invention, and even the relation of images to words. This book focuses on artists who worked in Italy, both native Italians and migrants from northern Europe. The practice of depicting from life became a self-conscious departure from the norms of Italian arts. In the context of court culture in Rome and Florence, works by artists ranging from Caravaggio to Claude Lorrain, Pieter van Laer to Jacques Callot, reveal new aspects of their artistic practice and its critical implications.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9462983283

9789462983281

OCLC:

1128200885