LIVES OF PAINTINGS, THE HB

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-8728-281-3
Verlag: Leiden University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 1004 g

"In sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick, made money, and became involved in love affairs. Presenting a range of case studies, Elsje van Kessel offers a detailed examination of the agency paintings and other two dimensional images could exert. This lifelike agency is not only connected to the seemingly naturalistic style of these images – works by Titian, Giorgione and their contemporaries, illustrated here in 150 plates. It also brought in relation to their social-historical contexts, meticulously unravelled through archival research. Grounded in the theoretical literature on the agency of material things, The Lives of Paintings contributes to Venetian studies as well as engaging with wider debates on the attribution of life and presence to images and objects."

Autoren/Hrsg.

van Kessel, Elsje

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. A Modern Miracle: Christ Carrying the Cross in the Scuola di San Rocco

3. A Portrait Defaced: The Donor Portrait of Broccardo Malchiostro in the Duomo of Treviso

4. A Martyr of Painting: Irene di Spilimbergo, Titian, and Venetian Portraiture between Life and Death

5. Politics, Portraits, and Love: Francesco Bembo, Bianca Capello and ‘the Most Beautiful

6. Conclusion

Epilogue: Life in the Collection

Notes

Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Colour Plates

Index

Über Autor(innen)

van Kessel, Elsje
Elsje van Kessel is PHD art historian and fellow at the Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris.