Author: Richard E. Spear
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300070354
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
In this highly original study of Italian baroque master Guido Reni (1575-1642), Richard Spear paints a compelling portrait of the artist - his complexities, his formative experiences, his cultural surroundings, and his unique sensibilities. Spear views Reni's career from a wide variety of perspectives and sets his life and works in social, economic, historical, artistic, religious, and psychological contexts. The author focuses first on Reni's peculiar character: a man at once deeply religious, rabidly misogynist, reportedly virginal, neurotically fearful of witches, and addicted to gambling. The author considers the enduring charisma of Reni's Crucifixions, weeping Marys, and repentant saints in the light of the Catholic doctrinal meaning of grace in Reni's time, the Church's attitude toward Mary and women, and the gendered implications of visual grace. Chapters on Reni's pricing policies, selling strategies, use of assistants, and attitude toward what constituted an "original", expose the motivating importance of money for Reni, and the concerns, even among seventeenth-century collectors, about how to distinguish original paintings from studio replicas or copies. The book investigates the ways renaissance and baroque attitudes toward art-making affected Reni and closes with a fresh view of Reni's unfinished canvases and last style, including the Divine Love, the beautiful and unusual painting that remained in Reni's studio at the time of his death.
The "Divine" Guido
Author: Richard E. Spear
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300070354
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
In this highly original study of Italian baroque master Guido Reni (1575-1642), Richard Spear paints a compelling portrait of the artist - his complexities, his formative experiences, his cultural surroundings, and his unique sensibilities. Spear views Reni's career from a wide variety of perspectives and sets his life and works in social, economic, historical, artistic, religious, and psychological contexts. The author focuses first on Reni's peculiar character: a man at once deeply religious, rabidly misogynist, reportedly virginal, neurotically fearful of witches, and addicted to gambling. The author considers the enduring charisma of Reni's Crucifixions, weeping Marys, and repentant saints in the light of the Catholic doctrinal meaning of grace in Reni's time, the Church's attitude toward Mary and women, and the gendered implications of visual grace. Chapters on Reni's pricing policies, selling strategies, use of assistants, and attitude toward what constituted an "original", expose the motivating importance of money for Reni, and the concerns, even among seventeenth-century collectors, about how to distinguish original paintings from studio replicas or copies. The book investigates the ways renaissance and baroque attitudes toward art-making affected Reni and closes with a fresh view of Reni's unfinished canvases and last style, including the Divine Love, the beautiful and unusual painting that remained in Reni's studio at the time of his death.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300070354
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
In this highly original study of Italian baroque master Guido Reni (1575-1642), Richard Spear paints a compelling portrait of the artist - his complexities, his formative experiences, his cultural surroundings, and his unique sensibilities. Spear views Reni's career from a wide variety of perspectives and sets his life and works in social, economic, historical, artistic, religious, and psychological contexts. The author focuses first on Reni's peculiar character: a man at once deeply religious, rabidly misogynist, reportedly virginal, neurotically fearful of witches, and addicted to gambling. The author considers the enduring charisma of Reni's Crucifixions, weeping Marys, and repentant saints in the light of the Catholic doctrinal meaning of grace in Reni's time, the Church's attitude toward Mary and women, and the gendered implications of visual grace. Chapters on Reni's pricing policies, selling strategies, use of assistants, and attitude toward what constituted an "original", expose the motivating importance of money for Reni, and the concerns, even among seventeenth-century collectors, about how to distinguish original paintings from studio replicas or copies. The book investigates the ways renaissance and baroque attitudes toward art-making affected Reni and closes with a fresh view of Reni's unfinished canvases and last style, including the Divine Love, the beautiful and unusual painting that remained in Reni's studio at the time of his death.
Guido Reni, 1575-1642 : exhibition jointly organized by the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with the Kimbell Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas : [Pinacoteca nazionale, Bologna, September 5 - November 13, 1988 : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 11, 1988 - February 12, 1989 : Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, March 11 - May 14, 1989]
Author: Guido Reni
Publisher: Nuova Alfa
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
"[R]ecent scholars interpret Guido Reni ... as a gay artist."--Summers, Queer encyclopedia of the visual arts, p. 119.
Publisher: Nuova Alfa
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
"[R]ecent scholars interpret Guido Reni ... as a gay artist."--Summers, Queer encyclopedia of the visual arts, p. 119.
Life of Guido Reni
Author: Carlo Cesare Malvasia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Felsina Pittrice
Author: Brepols
Publisher: Harvey Miller Publishers
ISBN: 9781909400689
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Harvey Miller Publishers
ISBN: 9781909400689
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen
Author: Anthony Colantuono
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521563970
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A study of Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521563970
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A study of Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen.
Seventeenth-century Art & Architecture
Author: Ann Sutherland Harris
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781856694155
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Encompassing the socio-political, cultural background of the period, this title takes a look at the careers of the Old Masters and many lesser-known artists. The book covers artistic developments across six countries and examines in detail many of the artworks on display.
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781856694155
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Encompassing the socio-political, cultural background of the period, this title takes a look at the careers of the Old Masters and many lesser-known artists. The book covers artistic developments across six countries and examines in detail many of the artworks on display.
Felsina Pittrice
Author: Carlo Cesare Malvasia
Publisher: Harvey Millers Publishers
ISBN: 9781909400641
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher: Harvey Millers Publishers
ISBN: 9781909400641
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Author: Giovanni Pietro Bellori
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521781879
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Carvaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by the seventeenth-century antiquarian Giovan Pietro Bellori. Originally conceived as a continuation of Vasari's famous Lives, it is a fundamental source for seventeenth-century Italian art and artistic theory, providing detailed descriptions of extant and lost works of art, while casting light on the cultural politics of contemporary Rome and the relations between Rome and France. The importance of Bellori's Lives lies in the scrupulous documentation of artists, many of whom he knew personally; the author's detailed descriptions of their works; and his exposition of the classicist theory of art in the introductory lecture, the Idea. This volume contains the twelve Lives published in the original edition of 1672 and three Lives (Guido Reni, Andrea Sacchi, and Carlo Maratti) that survive in manuscript form and that were published for the first time in 1942.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521781879
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Carvaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by the seventeenth-century antiquarian Giovan Pietro Bellori. Originally conceived as a continuation of Vasari's famous Lives, it is a fundamental source for seventeenth-century Italian art and artistic theory, providing detailed descriptions of extant and lost works of art, while casting light on the cultural politics of contemporary Rome and the relations between Rome and France. The importance of Bellori's Lives lies in the scrupulous documentation of artists, many of whom he knew personally; the author's detailed descriptions of their works; and his exposition of the classicist theory of art in the introductory lecture, the Idea. This volume contains the twelve Lives published in the original edition of 1672 and three Lives (Guido Reni, Andrea Sacchi, and Carlo Maratti) that survive in manuscript form and that were published for the first time in 1942.
First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art,.
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Caravaggio & His Followers in Rome
Author: David Franklin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"The Italian artist Caravaggio (1571-1610) had a profound impact on a wide range of baroque painters of Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish, and Spanish origin who resided in Rome either during his lifetime or immediately afterward. This captivating book illustrates the notion of "Caravaggism," showcasing 65 works by Peter Paul Rubens and other important artists of the period who drew inspiration from Caravaggio. Also depicted are Caravaggio canvases that fully exhibit his distinctive style, along with ones that had a particularly discernible impact on other practitioners. Caravaggio's influence was greatest in Rome, where his works were seen by the largest and most international group of artists, and was at its peak in the early decades of the 17th century both before and after his untimely death at the age of 39. Not since Michelangelo or Raphael has one European artist affected so many of his contemporaries and over such broad geographic territory. Essays by an array of major Caravaggio scholars illuminate the underlying principles of the exhibit, reveal how Caravaggio altered the presentation and interpretation of many traditional subjects and inspired unusual new ones, and explore the artist's legacy and how he irrevocably changed the course of painting."--Publisher's description.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"The Italian artist Caravaggio (1571-1610) had a profound impact on a wide range of baroque painters of Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish, and Spanish origin who resided in Rome either during his lifetime or immediately afterward. This captivating book illustrates the notion of "Caravaggism," showcasing 65 works by Peter Paul Rubens and other important artists of the period who drew inspiration from Caravaggio. Also depicted are Caravaggio canvases that fully exhibit his distinctive style, along with ones that had a particularly discernible impact on other practitioners. Caravaggio's influence was greatest in Rome, where his works were seen by the largest and most international group of artists, and was at its peak in the early decades of the 17th century both before and after his untimely death at the age of 39. Not since Michelangelo or Raphael has one European artist affected so many of his contemporaries and over such broad geographic territory. Essays by an array of major Caravaggio scholars illuminate the underlying principles of the exhibit, reveal how Caravaggio altered the presentation and interpretation of many traditional subjects and inspired unusual new ones, and explore the artist's legacy and how he irrevocably changed the course of painting."--Publisher's description.