Antonello Da Messina and the History of Art

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-367-50932-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Visual Culture in Early Modernity

This book argues that painter Antonello da Messina (c. 1430–1479) is a formative cross-cultural figure in the practice of art history itself.

Featuring new interpretations of some of his best-known works, Anna Swartwood House shows how the uncertainties surrounding the painter have made him a uniquely pliable figure, easily inserted into different narratives of contact, cultural translation, and exchange. Using a wide range of materials including archival documents, biographies, civic histories, collectors’ notes, and popular literature, House traces the fortunes of an artist continually defined by place.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, early modern history, and historiography.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

House, Anna Swartwood

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One. The Documentary Thread.

Chapter Two. Vasari’s Life and its Afterlife

Chapter Three. The Smile of the Unknown Mariner: The Sicilian Face of Antonello

Chapter Four. Antonello, Collecting, and Display

Chapter Five. Unfinished Journeys and the Saints Francis and Dominic

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Swartwood House is Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina. She has published widely on cross-cultural encounters in early modern Europe.