Archivi dello sguardo
Archivi dello sguardo

Author: Francesca Cappelletti

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13:

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"l volume raccoglie articoli dei più grandi esperti a livello internazionale sul tema del paesaggio e della sua rappresentazione dal Quattrocento al Seicento, fornendo uno strumento di conoscenza e di interpretazione del fenomeno, di cruciale importanza per la comprensione della cultura figurativa europea fino all’Ottocento. Sono affrontati, nei vari interventi, aspetti dell’opera di Tiziano, Jan Brueghel, Annibale Carracci, Filippo Napoletano, Nicolas Poussin e Claude Lorrain. Genere considerato “minore” nel corso del Cinquecento italiano dai teorici dell’arte - e quasi specializzazione cui erano relegati i pittori del nord giunti in Italia attraversando le Alpi – il paesaggio conosce tra la fine del Cinquecento e l’inizio del Seicento il suo successo nei palazzi dei pontefici e nelle quadrerie aristocratiche. A Roma si incrociano le differenti tradizioni: i paesaggi archeologici di Polidoro da Caravaggio e di Raffaello e gli sfondi più naturalistici e poetici dei dipinti di Giorgione e Tiziano (che alcuni grandi collezionisti romani avevano provveduto a importare nelle loro residenze). Anche la tradizione veneziana passa da Roma e viene vivificata dalla presenza di Girolamo Muziano (con gli affreschi per la villa di Ippolito d’Este a Tivoli), mentre Jan Brueghel e Paul Bril vi concentranogran parte della loro vicenda artistica. A completare il volume, l’analisi di due personalità straordinarie che innalzarono la pittura di paesaggio ad un livello mai raggiunto prima: Nicolas Poussin e Claude Lorrain."--

Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome
Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome

Author: Jill Burke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1351575716

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From the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth century, Rome was one of the most vibrant and productive centres for the visual arts in the West. Artists from all over Europe came to the city to see its classical remains and its celebrated contemporary art works, as well as for the opportunity to work for its many wealthy patrons. They contributed to the eclecticism of the Roman artistic scene, and to the diffusion of 'Roman' artistic styles in Europe and beyond. Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome is the first book-length study to consider identity creation and artistic development in Rome during this period. Drawing together an international cast of key scholars in the field of Renaissance studies, the book adroitly demonstrates how the exceptional quality of Roman court and urban culture - with its elected 'monarchy', its large foreign population, and unique sense of civic identity - interacted with developments in the visual arts. With its distinctive chronological span and uniquely interdisciplinary approach, Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome puts forward an alternative history of the visual arts in early modern Rome, one that questions traditional periodisation and stylistic categorisation.

The Routledge Research Companion to Anglo-Italian Renaissance Literature and Culture
The Routledge Research Companion to Anglo-Italian Renaissance Literature and Culture

Author: Michele Marrapodi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 679

ISBN-13: 1317044169

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The aim of this Companion volume is to provide scholars and advanced graduate students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research work on Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies. Written by a team of international scholars and experts in the field, the chapters are grouped into two large areas of influence and intertextuality, corresponding to the dual way in which early modern England looked upon the Italian world from the English perspective – Part 1: "Italian literature and culture" and Part 2: "Appropriations and ideologies". In the first part, prominent Italian authors, artists, and thinkers are examined as a direct source of inspiration, imitation, and divergence. The variegated English response to the cultural, ideological, and political implications of pervasive Italian intertextuality, in interrelated aspects of artistic and generic production, is dealt with in the second part. Constructed on the basis of a largely interdisciplinary approach, the volume offers an in-depth and wide-ranging treatment of the multifaceted ways in which Italy’s material world and its iconologies are represented, appropriated, and exploited in the literary and cultural domain of early modern England. For this reason, contributors were asked to write essays that not only reflect current thinking but also point to directions for future research and scholarship, while a purposefully conceived bibliography of primary and secondary sources and a detailed index round off the volume.

Poussin and Nature
Poussin and Nature

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1588392430

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"The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (15941665) is most often associated with classically inspired settings and figures depicting solemn scenes from mythology or the Bible. Yet he also created some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic quality that has been admired by artists as different as Constable, Turner, and Ce;zanne. As the British critic William Hazlitt noted in 1844, 'This great and learned man might be said to see nature through the glass of time'. This beautiful catalogue presents the first in-depth examination of Poussin's landscapes. Featured here are more than 40 paintings, ranging from the artist's early Venetian-inspired pastorals to his grandly structured and austere works, designed as metaphors or allegories for the processes of nature. Also included are approximately 60 drawings and essays by internationally renowned scholars who examine the painter's visual, literary, and philosophical influences as well as his relationships with his patrons and his place in the art-historical canon."--Publisher description.

The Possessions of a Cardinal
The Possessions of a Cardinal

Author: Mary Hollingsworth

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13:

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A set of case studies exploring the tastes, passions, and possessions of cardinals in Renaissance and Baroque Rome.

Display of Art in the Roman Palace, 1550–1750
Display of Art in the Roman Palace, 1550–1750

Author: Gail Feigenbaum

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1606062980

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This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the parts function to convey multiple artistic, social, and political messages, all within a splendid environment that provided a model for aristocratic residences throughout Europe. Many of the objects exhibited in museums today once graced the interior of a Roman Baroque palazzo or a setting inspired by one. In fact, the very convention of a paintings gallery— the mainstay of museums—traces its ancestry to prototypes in the palaces of Rome. Inside Roman palaces, the display of art was calibrated to an increasingly accentuated dynamism of social and official life, activated by the moving bodies and the attention of residents and visitors. Display unfolded in space in a purposeful narrative that reflected rank, honor, privilege, and intimacy. With a contextual approach that encompasses the full range of media, from textiles to stucco, this study traces the influential emerging concept of a unified interior. It argues that art history—even the emergence of the modern category of fine art—was worked out as much in the rooms of palaces as in the printed pages of Vasari and other early writers on art.

The Invention of Annibale Carracci
The Invention of Annibale Carracci

Author: Clare Robertson

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13:

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Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) fu una delle figure chiave (1560-1609) nello sviluppo dell'arte barocca italiana, e tuttavia la sua arte può sembrare problematica per diversi aspetti. Questo volume analizza la sua carriera dagli esordi a Bologna fino alle opere successive a Roma, il cui apice è raggiunto con il suo capolavoro, gli splendidi affreschi della Galleria Farnese. Il volume indaga inoltre il linguaggio religioso fortemente espressivo che sviluppò nelle pale d'altare, adeguate espressioni dei princìpi della Contro-Riforma, e i suoi importanti contributi all'evoluzione del paesaggio classico. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali

The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings
The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings

Author: National Gallery (Great Britain)

Publisher: National Gallery London

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13:

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This highly anticipated catalogue of sixteenth-century paintings from the distinguished collection of the National Gallery in London encompasses artists who were active in Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona, cities characterized as much by the artistic interaction between them as by the influence of Venice. The artists include such well-known names as Lorenzo Lotto, Moretto, and Moroni, along with less familiar ones such as Bartolomeo Veneto and Callisto Piazza. For each of the paintings, distinguished scholar and curator Nicholas Penny provides information about technique and materials, conservation and condition, and subject and iconography. An account of the painting's original patronage is followed by a discussion of changing tastes, interpretation, and how the picture was esteemed (or neglected) over the centuries. One third of the paintings catalogued here are portraits, and entries include fascinating sections on contemporary dress, furnishings, and accessories. An appendix provides an illuminating account of some of the great collectors and collections of the past.