The Lives of Paintings
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The Lives of Paintings

Presence, Agency and Likeness in Venetian Art of the Sixteenth Century

  1. 348 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Lives of Paintings

Presence, Agency and Likeness in Venetian Art of the Sixteenth Century

About this book

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 over 150 plates. It is 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.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9783110495775
Edition
1
Topic
Arte
Subtopic
Arte general

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. A Modern Miracle: Christ Carrying the Cross in the Scuola di San Rocco
  5. A Portrait Defaced: The Donor Portrait of Broccardo Malchiostro in the Duomo of Treviso
  6. A Martyr of Painting: Irene di Spilimbergo, Titian, and Venetian Portraiture between Life and Death
  7. Politics, Portraits, and Love: Francesco Bembo, Bianca Capello and ‘the Most Beautiful Contemporary Painting in Venice’
  8. Conclusion
  9. Epilogue: Life in the Collection
  10. Notes
  11. Bibliography
  12. List of Illustrations
  13. Colour Plates
  14. Index