Representing from life in seventeenth-century Italy /Sheila McTighe.
McTighe, Sheila,
Representing from life in seventeenth-century Italy /Sheila McTighe. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations. - Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 20 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9789048533268 9048533260
Electronic Books.
N6916 / .R477 2020
Representing from life in seventeenth-century Italy /Sheila McTighe. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations. - Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 20 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9789048533268 9048533260
Electronic Books.
N6916 / .R477 2020