The matter of violence in Baroque painting / Bogdan Cornea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornea, Bogdan, author.

Series:

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, Baroque--Europe--Themes, motives.

Painting, Baroque.

Violence in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrations (colour), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Baroque depictions of violence are often dismissed as 'over the top' and 'excessive'. Their material richness and exciting visual complexity, together with the visceral engagement they demand from beholders, are usually explained in literature as reflecting the presumed violence of early modern society. This book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a close analysis of some of the most iconic works of the period.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

An Introduction

1. Wound: On Caravaggio's Martyrdom of Saint Ursula

2. Touch: On Giovanni Lanfranco's Saint Peter Healing Saint Agatha

3. Skin: On Jusepe de Ribera's Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew

4. Flesh: On Georges de La Tour's Penitent Saint Jerome

5. Blood: On Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes

6. Death: On Francisco de Zurbarán's The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion

Conclusion

General Bibliography

Index

List of Images

Image 1. Jusepe de Ribera, Apollo Flaying Marsyas, 1637, oil on canvas, 202 × 255 cm, Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels. Image Credit: Open Access.

Image 2. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610, oil on canvas, 143 × 180 cm, Palazzo Zevallos-Stigliano, Naples. Image Credit: Intesa Sanpaolo Collection.

Image 3. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610, oil on canvas, 143 × 180 cm, Palazzo Zevallos-Stigliano, Naples. Image Credit: Intesa Sanpaolo Collection. DETAIL.

Image 4. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1598, oil on canvas, 145 × 195 cm, Palazzo Barberini, Rome. Image Credit: Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Roma (MiC)

Bibliotheca Hertziana, Istituto Max Planck per la storia del

Image 5. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Incredulity of Saint Thomas, 1602, Sanssouci Palace, Potsdam. Image Credit: Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg. Photographer: Hans Bach.

Image 6. Giovanni Lanfranco, Saint Peter Healing Saint Agatha, 1613-1614, Galleria Nazionale, Parma. Image Credit: Licenced by Ministerio dei Beni e Delle Attivita Culturali

Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta-Galleria Nationale di Parma.

Image 7. Giovanni Lanfranco, Saint Peter Healing Saint Agatha, 1613-1614, Galleria Nazionale, Parma. Image Credit: Licenced by Ministerio dei Beni e Delle Attivita Culturali

Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta-Galleria Nationale di Parma. DETAIL.

Image 8. Jusepe de Ribera, Apollo and Marsyas, 1637, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples. Image Credit: Direzione Regionale Musei della Campania.

Image 9. Jusepe de Ribera, The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, 1644, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona. Image Credit: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona.

Image 10. Jusepe de Ribera, The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, 1644, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona. Image Credit: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona. DETAIL.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 3, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Cornea, Bogdan The Matter of Violence in Baroque Painting

ISBN:

9789048543830

9048543835

OCLC:

1351752290