Still Life As Portrait In Early Modern Italy
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Still Life As Portrait In Early Modern Italy
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Author : Ornat Lev-er
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Still Life As Portrait In Early Modern Italy written by Ornat Lev-er and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Artists categories.
This highly original study explores how still-life paintings form a dynamic network in which artworks, musical instruments, books, and scientific apparatuses constitute links to a dazzling range of figures and sources of knowledge.
Still Life
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Author : Norbert Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Taschen
Release Date : 2003
Still Life written by Norbert Schneider and has been published by Taschen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Art and society categories.
How do the objects in a still life reflect the customs, ideas and aspirations of the time? This is one of the questions which Schneider asks in this book. Still lifes chart the history of scientific discoveries and their acceptance as well as the gradual replacement of the mediaeval concept of the world.
Old Women And Art In The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior
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Author : Erin J. Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
Old Women And Art In The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior written by Erin J. Campbell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Art categories.
Though portraits of old women mediate cultural preoccupations just as effectively as those of younger women, the scant published research on images of older women belies their significance within early modern Italy. This study examines the remarkable flowering, largely overlooked in portraiture scholarship to date, of portraits of old women in Northern Italy and especially Bologna during the second half of the sixteenth century, when, as a result of religious reform, the lives of women and the family came under increasing scrutiny. Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior draws on a wide range of primary visual sources, including portraits, religious images, architectural views, prints and drawings, as well as extant palazzi and case, furnishings, and domestic objects created by the leading artists in Bologna, including Lavinia Fontana, Bartolomeo Passerotti, Denys Calvaert, and the Carracci. The study also draws on an array of historical sources - including sixteenth-century theories of portraiture, prescriptive writings on women and the family, philosophical and practical treatises on the home economy, sumptuary legislation, books of secrets, prescriptive writings on old age, and household inventories - to provide new historical perspectives on the domestic life of the propertied classes in Bologna during the period. Author Erin Campbell contends that these images of unidentified women are not only crucial to our understanding of the cultural operations of art within the early modern world, but also, by working from the margins to revise the center, provide an opportunity to present new conceptual frameworks and question our assumptions about old age, portraiture, and the domestic interior.
Movements Of The Mind
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Author : Rebecca Marie Howard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Movements Of The Mind written by Rebecca Marie Howard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Art categories.
Early modern Italian portraiture is so well known that it might seem that nothing new could be written about it. After all, many of the period’s most celebrated portraits, such as Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, are endlessly reproduced and known to nearly everyone. Yet, this dissertation contends that there is much more to these images than meets our contemporary eyes. I argue that early modern artists intended to do more than simply render a naturalistic image of a particular person in materials like painting, bronze, or stone. Rather, the goal of early modern portraiture was to perpetuate a sitter’s memory in time. This dissertation aims to explain precisely how fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian portraitists managed this complex task, creating specific compositions that purposefully recalled the ways that they understood our memories to function. Early modern artists ingeniously created portraits paired with symbolic and allegorical devices, which addressed not only the sitter’s appearance but also aspects of his/her character—what period persons called “the movements of the mind.” The artist’s ultimate goal was to better communicate these things to the mind of the viewer, instilling the whole of the sitter’s persona therein. As such, this dissertation explores an unexamined feature that figures prominently in this strategy, namely, the way that period portraits paired with devices were composed to mirror or imitate understandings of the workings of memory itself, often analogized as the impress of a seal in wax or as a group of images stored within a memory house. Other formats aimed to better perpetuate memory by directly communicating with the viewer, based on guidelines set forth by period authors such as Leon Battista Alberti, or by recalling period studies of the interior and exterior of human bodies. Thus, from portrait medallions, whose three-dimensional forms appear ready to “impress” themselves in the mind, to painted panel portraits accessed by way of decorated covers, thereby imitating the effect of a memory house, this dissertation sees the very structure of early modern portraits as reflecting beliefs about vision, communication, and the perpetuation of ideas in the mind.
Re Membering Masculinity In Early Modern Florence
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Author : Allison Levy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Re Membering Masculinity In Early Modern Florence written by Allison Levy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Art categories.
From Pliny to Petrarch to Pope-Hennessy and beyond, many have understood the obvious connection between portraiture and commemorative practice. This book expands and nuances our understanding of Renaissance portraiture; the author shows it to be complexly generated within a discourse of male anxiety and pre-mortuary mourning. She argues that portraiture could defer memory loss or, at the very least, pictorially console the subject against his own potentially unmourned death. This book recognizes a socio-cultural anxiety - the fear not merely of death but also of being forgotten - and identifies a set of pictorial, literary and theoretical strategies consequently formulated to ensure memory. To explore this phenomenon, this interdisciplinary but fundamentally art historical project merges early modern visual culture and critical theories of the body. The author examines an extensive selection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century male and female portraits, primarily associated with the Medici family, circle and court, in and against both historical writings and contemporary discourses, including literary and cultural theory, psychoanalysis, feminism and gender studies, and critical theories of race and disability. Re-membering Masculinity generates new ideas about both male and female portraiture in early modern Florence, raises even more questions about the experiences and representations of widowhood and mourning, and re-configures our understanding of masculinity - from the early modern male body to 'Renaissance Man' to postmodern manhood.
Artisans Of The Body In Early Modern Italy
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Author : Sandra Cavallo
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2007
Artisans Of The Body In Early Modern Italy written by Sandra Cavallo and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
This groundbreaking study explores the role of those involved in various aspects of the care, comfort, and appearance of the body in 17th and early 18th century Italy. It brings to light the strong cultural affinities and social ties between barber, surgeons, and the apparently distant trades of jeweler, tailor, wigmaker, and upholsterer. Drawing on contemporary understandings of the body, the author shows that shared concerns about health and wellbeing permeated the professional cultures of these medical and non-medical occupations. At the same time, the detailed analysis of the life-course, career patterns, and family experience of "artisans of the body" offers unprecedented insight into the world of the urban middling sorts.
Representing From Life In Seventeenth Century Italy
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Author : Sheila McTighe
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-06
Representing From Life In Seventeenth Century Italy written by Sheila McTighe and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-06 with Art categories.
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.
Wives Widows Mistresses And Nuns In Early Modern Italy
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Author : Katherine A. McIver
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Wives Widows Mistresses And Nuns In Early Modern Italy written by Katherine A. McIver and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Art categories.
Through a visually oriented investigation of historical (in)visibility in early modern Italy, the essays in this volume recover those women - wives, widows, mistresses, the illegitimate - who have been erased from history in modern literature, rendered invisible or obscured by history or scholarship, as well as those who were overshadowed by male relatives, political accident, or spatial location. A multi-faceted invisibility of the individual and of the object is the thread that unites the chapters in this volume. Though some women chose to be invisible, for example the cloistered nun, these essays show that in fact, their voices are heard or seen through their commissions and their patronage of the arts, which afforded them some visibility. Invisibility is also examined in terms of commissions which are no longer extant or are inaccessible. What is revealed throughout the essays is a new way of looking at works of art, a new way to visualize the past by addressing representational invisibility, the marginalized or absent subject or object and historical (in)visibility to discover who does the 'looking,' and how this shapes how something or someone is visible or invisible. The result is a more nuanced understanding of the place of women and gender in early modern Italy.
Still Life
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Author : Norbert Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Taschen
Release Date : 1994
Still Life written by Norbert Schneider and has been published by Taschen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Art categories.
INSIGHTS INTO CHANGES OF MENTALITY AND PHILOSOPHY. HOW DO THE OBJECTS IN A STILL LIFE REFLECT THE CUSTOMS, IDEAS AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE TIME? THIS IS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS WHICH NORBERT SCHNEIDER ASKS IN THIS BOOK. THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES AND THE 17TH CENTURY WAS WITHOUT DOUBT THE HEYDAY OF THE STILL LIFE. IT IS AN ART FORM WHICH GIVES US VALUABLE INSIGHTS INTO CHANGES OF MENTALITY AND PHILOSOPHY AS WELL AS PEOPLE'S NOTIONS OF DEATH. STILL LIFES CHART THE HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES AND THEIR ACCEPTANCE AS WELL AS THE GRADUAL REPLACEMENT OF THE MEDIAEVAL CONCEPT OF THE WORLD.
Titian S Portraits Through Aretino S Lens
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
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Titian S Portraits Through Aretino S Lens written by and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Art categories.
After classical antiquity, the Italian Renaissance raised the portrait, whether literary or pictorial, to the status of an important art form. Among sixteenth-century Renaissance painters, Titian made his reputation, and much of his living, by portraiture. Titian's portraits were promoted by his friend, Pietro Aretino, an eminent poet and critic, who addressed his letters and sonnets to the same personages whom Titian portrayed. In many of these letters (which often included sonnets), Aretino described both an individual patron and Titian's portrait of that patron, thus stimulating the reciprocal relation between a verbal and pictorial portrait. By investigating this unprecedented historical phenomenon, Luba Freedman elucidates the meaning conveyed by the portrait as an artistic form in Renaissance Italy. Fusing iconographical analysis of the most famous Titian portraits with rhetorical analysis of Aretino's literary legacy as compared to contemporary reactions, Freedman demonstrates that it is due to Titian's many portraits and to Aretino's repeated simultaneous writings about them that the portrait ceased being primarily a social-historical document, preserving the sitter's likeness for posterity. It gradually became, as it is today, a work of art, the artist's invention, which gives its viewer an aesthetic pleasure.