Bravura : virtuosity and ambition in early modern European painting /

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The painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and spread throughout Europe during the seventeenth century. While earlier artistic movements presented a polished image of the artist by downplaying the creative process, bravura celebrated a painter's distinct materials,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Suthor, Nicola (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Painting, Late Renaissance.
Painting > Technique.
Peinture de la Renaissance > Renaissance tardive.
ART > History > Renaissance.
Painting, Late Renaissance
Painting > Technique
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • BRAVURA
  • Introduction
  • 1 Celebrations of violence
  • 2 The figural tour de force
  • 3 The spatial tour de force
  • 4 Bravura as painterly style
  • 5 Communicating artifice
  • 6 Economies of practice
  • 7 Arte-factum: the feminizing bravura
  • 8 Endangering the youth
  • 9 The academic response
  • 10 Reenactments and echoes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Photo Credits

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