The lives of paintings : presence, agency and likeness in Venetian art of the sixteenth century /

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"As this book shows, paintings in 16th-century Venice were often treated as living beings. On the basis of case studies, its author offers a detailed examination of the agency paintings and other two-dimensional images could exert. Grounded in the theoretical literature on the agency of materia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kessel, Elsje van (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Berlin] : Leiden : De Gruyter ; Leiden University Press, [2017]
Colección:Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus ; Bd. 18.
Reihe Kunst und Wirkmacht.
Temas:
1500-1599
Painting, Italian > Italy > Venice > History > 16th century.
Pictures > Psychological aspects.
Life in art.
Soul in art.
Art and society > Italy > Venice > History > 16th century.
Peinture italienne > Italie > Venise > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Illustrations, images, etc. > Aspect psychologique.
Vie dans l'art.
Âme dans l'art.
Art et société > Italie > Venise > Histoire > 16e siècle.
ART > History > General.
Art and society
Civilization
Life in art
Painting, Italian
Pictures > Psychological aspects
Soul in art
Venice (Italy) > Civilization.
Venise (Italie) > Civilisation.
Italy > Venice
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction.
  • At the Doge's Palace: setting the parameters
  • The lives of paintings
  • Venice as a case study
  • Set-Up of the book ;
  • A Modern Miracle: Christ Carrying the Cross in the Scuola di San Rocco.
  • Genesis and early history
  • 'Che muove le lacrime à pietosiriguardanti': the painting as a trigger of response frame and other sacred objects
  • Adaptations
  • The Scuola di San Rocco and the initiators of the cult
  • The faithful
  • The changing role of the artist
  • Conclusion: the pious painter ;
  • A Portrait Defaced: The Donor Portrait of Broccardo Malchiostro in the Duomo of Treviso.
  • The Cappella dell'Annunziata
  • Titain's Annunciation
  • Artistic innovation as a problem
  • Donor portraits
  • Frontality
  • In search of a culprit
  • Image destruction and pictorial mockery
  • Image destruction and ritual violence
  • Iconoclasm and Christianity 0-- Conclusion: Malchiostro's end
  • Excursus: ' ... maledetto il saper vostro ... ': Titian and poetic iconcolasm ;
  • A Martyr of Painting: Irene di Spilimbergo, Titian, and Venetian Portraiture betwenn Life and Death.
  • Irene di Spilimbergo, her life and her death
  • The Washington portraits of Emilia and Irene
  • A curious genesis
  • Titian's authorship
  • Agency in the art of painting
  • Paintings as relics?
  • The poem collection
  • The volume as portrait
  • 'La mia vera effigie'
  • - A fragmented image
  • A debate of vital importance: Irene di Spilimbergo paints her self-portrait
  • Nature jealous of art
  • Conclusion: a fruitful afterlife? ;
  • Politics, Portraits, and Love: Francesco Bembo, Bianca CApello and 'the Most Beautiful Contemporary Painting in Venice'.
  • 'A figure so notorious for evil'
  • A daughter of Venice
  • The portrait
  • Francesco Bembo, the poet
  • Bembo's fame
  • A civic ritual
  • Francesco Bembo, a man in politics
  • Conclusion: the politics of portraiture ;
  • Conclusion.
  • Epilogue: life in the collection.

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