Reframing Seventeenth-century Bolognese Art

Reframing Seventeenth-century Bolognese Art

Author: Babette Bohn

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789462986336

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This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the evolving taste for Bolognese art during the seventeenth century, both within and outside Bologna itself, based on new archival research and also exploring issues of gender, class, and regional preferences during the Seicento.


The Procaccini and the Business of Painting in Early Modern Milan

The Procaccini and the Business of Painting in Early Modern Milan

Author: Angelo Lo Conte

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-30

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 100029241X

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The book investigates the lives and careers of the Procaccini brothers: Camillo (1561–1629), Carlo Antonio (1571–1631) and Giulio Cesare (1574–1625), the most important family of painters working in northern Italy at the start of the seventeenth century. The Procaccinis' work is here analysed by interconnecting their individual stories and understanding their success as the combination of mutual artistic choices, a high level of specialization and precise business organization. The book looks at this family of painters as entrepreneurs, emphasizing their conscious response to the requests of public and private patrons, as well as their ability to balance instances of originality and imitation in an era characterized by a wide range of artistic opportunities, including religious commissions, national and international patronage and multifaceted markets. This book will be of interest to scholars studying art history, early modern studies, the art market, Italian studies and Italian history.


Elisabetta Sirani

Elisabetta Sirani

Author: Adelina Modesti

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2023-06-27

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1606068172

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Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665)—painter, printmaker, and teacher—was one of the most innovative and prolific artists of the Bolognese school. The daughter of a painter, she hailed from a city whose university was believed to have educated women since the Middle Ages and that celebrated the cult of Saint Catherine of Bologna, who was known for her skill as a painter and illuminator—ideal conditions to encourage the training and patronage of skilled women artists. Drawing on extensive archival documentation and primary sources, including inventories, sale catalogues, and Sirani’s work diary, this book provides an overview of the brief life, fascinating oeuvre, critical fortune, and cultural legacy of this successful Baroque artist. Art historian Adelina Modesti vividly describes the society that both inhibited and supported Sirani, examining her influence on students at Bologna’s school for professional women artists as well as her significance in the professionalization of women’s artistic practice during the seventeenth century. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book focuses on women’s agency. More specifically, it explores Sirani’s identity as both a woman and an artist, including her professional ambition, self-fashioning, and literary construction as Bologna’s preeminent cultural heroine.


Drawings from the Age of the Carracci

Drawings from the Age of the Carracci

Author: Per Bjurstrom

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781854441706

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A selection from the collection of works by 17 century Bolognese artists -- the 'Golden Age of Bolognese Art' -- put together by Carl Gustav Tessin (1695-1770), Swedish Ambassador in Paris during the 1740s and now part of the Swedish Royal Collection. Twenty-six drawings by the Carracci are included -- the brothers Agostino and Annibale and their cousin Ludovico -- together with many drawings by their pupils and followers such as Albano, Guercino, Guido Reni.


Portraits and Poses

Portraits and Poses

Author: Beatrijs Vanacker

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2022-04-28

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 9462703302

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Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural view on authority construction among early modern female intellectuals The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses various modes and strategies by which learned women (authors, scientists, jurists, midwifes, painters, and others) sought to negotiate and legitimise their authority at the dawn of modern science in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (1600–1800). This volume explores the transnational dimensions of intellectual networks in France, Italy, Britain, the German states and the Low Countries, among others. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from different spheres of professionalisation, it examines both individual and collective constructions of female intellectual authority through word and image. In its innovative combination of an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume contributes to the growing literature on women and intellectual authority in the Early Modern Era and outlines contours for future research.


Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting

Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting

Author: Daniel Unger

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2019-02-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9048537258

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Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting. Ideology, Practice, and Criticism focuses on the unique nature of early modern Bolognese painting that found its expression in stylistic diversity. The flourishing of different stylistic approaches in the Mannerist paintings of the previous generation evolved, at the turn the seventeenth century, in the work of the Bolognese painters into an approach best described as eclecticism, characterized by the combination of two or more styles in a single work of art. Eclectism was a major innovation and major contribution to the history of art. But it then also became a critical term that suffered much negative press. The book therefore also traces the role of ecclecticism as a concept in the evolution of criticism and scholarship about the Bolognese school of painting over 250 years, showing how the dramatically vacillating attitudes towards this concept shaped the historical view of the Bolognese painters, ultimately having a tremendous dampening impact on our understanding of seventeenth-century art.


Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting

Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting

Author: Daniel M. Unger

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789462986015

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This book regards the ideology, practice, and critcism in relation to the usage of unassimilated eclecticism -the use of more than a single style- in a given work of art in Early Modern Bolognese painting.


The Devout Hand

The Devout Hand

Author: Patricia Rocco

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2017-11-29

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0773552200

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After the Counter-Reformation, the Papal State of Bologna became a hub for the flourishing of female artistic talent. The eighteenth-century biographer Luigi Crespi recorded over twenty-eight women artists working in the city, although many of these, until recently, were ignored by modern art criticism, despite the fame they attained during their lifetimes. What were the factors that contributed to Bologna’s unique confluence of women with art, science, and religion? The Devout Hand explores the work of two generations of Italian women artists in Bologna, from Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614), whose career emerged during the aftermath of the Counter Reformation, to her brilliant successor, Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665), who organized the first school for women artists. Patricia Rocco further sheds light on Sirani’s students and colleagues, including the little-known engraver Veronica Fontana and the innovative but understudied etcher Giuseppe Maria Mitelli. Combining analysis of iconography, patronage, gender, and reception studies, Rocco integrates painting, popular prints, book illustration, and embroidery to open a wider lens onto the relationship between women, virtue, and the visual arts during a period of religious crisis and reform. A reminder of the lasting power of images, The Devout Hand highlights women’s active role in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Christian reform and artistic production.


Reframing Albrecht D?rer

Reframing Albrecht D?rer

Author: Andrea Bubenik

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1351551795

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Focusing on the ways his art and persona were valued and criticized by writers, collectors, and artists subsequent to his death, this book examines the reception of the works of Albrecht D?rer. Andrea Bubenik's analysis highlights the intensive and international interest in D?rer's art and personality, and his developing role as a paragon in art historiography, in conjunction with the proliferation of portraits after his likeness. The author traces carefully how D?rer's paintings, prints, drawings and theoretical writings traveled widely, and were appropriated into new contexts and charged with different meanings. Drawing on inventories and correspondences and taking collecting practices into account, Bubenik establishes who owned what by D?rer in the 16th and 17th centuries, and characterizes the key locations where interest in D?rer peaked (especially the courts of Maximilian I in Munich, and Rudolf II in Prague). Bubenik treats the emergent artistic appropriations of D?rer-borrowings from or transformations of his originals-in conjunction with contemporary sources on art theory. The volume includes illustrations of numerous imitative works after D?rer. As well as being the first book to fully address the early reception of the most important of German Renaissance artists, Reframing Albrecht D?rer shows how appropriation is a crucial concept for understanding artistic practice during the early modern period.