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A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bohn, Babette.
Contributor:
Saslow, James M.
Arnold, Dana.
Series:
Blackwell Companions to Art History Series
Blackwell Companions to Art History Series ; v.29
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Art, Renaissance.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (690 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Contents:
Intro
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Defining the Subject
Scope and Content
Historiography
Conclusion
Part 1: The Context
1 A Taxonomy of Art Patronage in Renaissance Italy
Corporate Patronage, Sacred and Secular
Patronage by Individuals and Families
Papal and Curial Patronage
2 Judaism and the Arts in Early Modern Europe
Art and Jewish Religious Life
Grotesque Images of Degradation
Christian and Jewish Relations Inside and Outside the Ghetto
3 Religion, Politics, and Art in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Thirteenth Century: Mendicants and their Influence
Fourteenth Century: The Virgin as Queen of Siena
Fifteenth Century: The Franciscan Message Appropriated
Fifteenth Century: Papal Authority Underscored
Sixteenth Century: Artistic Imagination versus the Church
4 Europe's Global Vision
The Americas
Asia/East Indies
The Muslim World and the Middle East
Conclusion: Europe's Global Iconography
5 Italian Art and the North
The Opposition of the Natural and the Ideal
Copying as Artistic Training and the Canon of Ancient Sculpture
Travel and Patronage
Italian Collectors' Receptivity to Northern Art
Italian Artists' Responses to Northern Art
Contacts across the Alps
The Critical Response
Suggestions for Further Study
6 The Desiring Eye
Mars and Samson: The Heterosexual Male Ideal
Venus, Eve, and Mary: The Heterosexual Woman
Ganymede and Sebastian: The Homosexual Male
Diana and the Witch: Lesbian Women
Conclusion: The Splitting Image
Part 2: The Artist
7 The Artist as Genius
* * *
8 Drawing in Renaissance Italy
Materials and Techniques
Drawing Types and Functions.
Drawing as Invention
Collecting of Drawings
9 Self-Portraiture 1400-1700
Witness and Participant
Origins of the Autonomous Self-Portrait
Albrecht Dürer
Painters as Painters
The Seventeenth Century
From Courtier to Artist
Rembrandt
Toward the Modern Autonomous Painter
10 Recasting the Role of the Italian Sculptor
Purposes of Sculpture
Materials and Methods
Antiquity's Role in the Evolution of Sculpture
Patronage
Invenzione
11 From Oxymoron to Virile Paintbrush
Italian Artists
Northern Europe
Part 3: The Object
12 The Birth of Mass Media
Techniques
Woodcuts
Book Illustrations and Printed Books
Engravings
Etchings
Paper
Printing on Demand
Subjects
Print Collections
What was a Print?
13 The Material Culture of Family Life in Italy and Beyond
Conclusions
14 Tapestry
The Costliness of Tapestry
France and the Low Countries, 1380-1510
Brussels Renaissance Tapestry, 1510-70
Flemish Producers and Designers in Europe, 1570-1620/30
Brussels and Parisian Baroque Tapestry, 1620-60
Brussels, Paris, and Beauvais, 1660-1750
15 The New Sciences and the Visual Arts
Painting the Heavens
Medicine and Embodied Knowledge
Natural History and the Limits of Visual Information
Emergent Theories of Color
16 Seeing Through Renaissance and Baroque Paintings
First Case Study: X-radiography and Poussin
Second Case Study: Autoradiography and La Tour
Third Case Study: Infrared Reflectography and Bouts
Fourth Case Study: Infrared Reflectography, Gas Chromatography, Polarizing Light Microscopy, X-radiography, and Fernando Gallego
Fifth Case Study: Infrared Reflectography and Michelangelo
Sixth Case Study: X-radiography and Titian
Part 4: The Message.
17 Iconography in Renaissance and Baroque Art
The Iconography of St. Peter: A Case in Point
Other Saints
Biblical Narratives: Crucifixions and Annunciations
Disguised Symbolism
Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting
Iconology and Allegory
18 Renaissance Landscapes
Origins: Landscapes as Settings in Fourteenth-Century Painting
Landscape in Early Netherlandish Painting
The World Landscape of the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands
German Landscapes and the Danube School
The Venetian Landscape
Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the Traditions of Netherlandish Landscape
Dutch and Flemish Landscape 1590-1650
Dutch Landscapes 1650-1700
The Classical Landscape
19 The Nude Figure in Renaissance Art
Sacred Nudity
New Media
The Netherlandish Fifteenth-Century Nude
The Female Nude in Italy
Nude Portraits
Michelangelo
The Female Nude in Sixteenth-Century Northern Europe
The Scandal of the Last Judgment
20 Genre Painting in Seventeenth-Century Europe
The Early Seventeenth Century (ca. 1600-40)
The Middle of the Seventeenth Century (ca. 1640-70)
The Late Seventeenth Century (ca. 1670-ca. 1700)
21 The Meaning of the European Painted Portrait, 1400-1650
The Single Figure
Pendant Portraits
Group Portraits
22 All the World's a Stage
The Philosophical Foundations of the Renaissance Theatrum Mundi
Evocations of the Theater in Renaissance Architectural Theory and Practice
Performance Spaces of the Early Renaissance
The Theater Conceit in Villa Architecture and Decoration
The Baroque Era
23 Intensity and Orthodoxy in Iberian and Hispanic Art of the Tridentine Era, 1550-1700
Church Reform in Spain
Art after the Council of Trent
Iconography
The Religious Orders.
Art in Daily Life
Additional Participatory Elements
Devotion to the Virgin
Secular Arts
Part 5: The Viewer, the Critic, and the Historian
24 Historians of Northern European Art
Establishing the Canon
Writing History and Defining Oeuvres
Nationalism and the Rise of Art History
Methodological Trends
25 Artistic Biography in Italy
26 With a Critical Eye: Painting and Theory in France, 1600-43
Morality and Presence in Vouet's Italian Period: What Natural Subjects Demand
Vouet and the Light Manner
Poussin in Paris
Décor and Decorum: Poussin's The Miracle of St. Francis Xavier
27 The Italian Piazza
The Problem of Periodization
The Textual Construction of the Piazza
Theatrum Mundi
"Quel gran teatro attorno la piazza"52
Conclusion: The Embodied Piazza
28 Building in Theory and Practice
Architectural Books before Printing: The Example of Vitruvius
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) and the First Printed Architectural Book
Manuscript Architectural Treatises after Alberti: The Real and the Ideal
Images and Text in Printed Architectural Books
Standard Deviations: The Orders in Architectural Books
Index.
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Other Format:
Print version: Bohn, Babette A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art
ISBN:
9781118391518
OCLC:
842857025

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