The lives of paintings : presence, agency and likeness in Venetian art of the sixteenth century / / Elsje van Kessel

• Autore: Kessel Elsje van
• Pubblicazione: Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Leiden, [Netherlands] : , : De Gruyter : , : Leiden University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations
• Disciplina: 759.5/09031
• Soggetto topico: Painting, Italian - Italy - Venice - 16th century - Themes, motives; Pictures - Psychological aspects; Life in art; Soul in art; Art and society - Italy - Venice - History - 16th century
• Soggetto geografico: Venice (Italy) Civilization
• Classificazione: LN 75810
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A Modern Miracle: Christ Carrying the Cross in the Scuola di San Rocco -- A Portrait Defaced: The Donor Portrait of Broccardo Malchiostro in the Duomo of Treviso -- A Martyr of Painting: Irene di Spilimbergo, Titian, and Venetian Portraiture between Life and Death -- Politics, Portraits, and Love: Francesco Bembo, Bianca Capello and 'the Most Beautiful Contemporary Painting in Venice' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Colour Plates -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Lebende Bilder" im Venedig des 16. Jahrhunderts; 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The lives of paintings
• ISBN: 3-11-049346-2; 3-11-049577-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807773103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus ; ; Band 18.