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Connecting Worlds
This book explores the concept of travel as inspiration for artists across history. Comprising over one hundred such works, Connecting Worlds: Artists & Travel is the first exhibition dedicated to artists' experiences of travel from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. A collaboration between the Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Katrin Bellinger Collection, London, the exhibition includes works by major artists, lesser-known professionals, as well as amateurs, mostly from Northern Europe. Divided into three sections, the exhibition begins by exploring the work of artists on the road and what they regarded as important to record in their sketchbooks. The second section looks at Rome as one of the most important destinations for Northern travelers, and the journey ends in Dresden, a center of cultural exchange and glamorous festivities. This richly illustrated catalog features essays by an international panel of experts addressing such topics as the uses of artist sketchbooks across time, written and visual accounts of travel in books and prints, and encounters with the Ottoman world.
Artists at Work
Catalogue accompanies exhibition held 3 May - 15 July 2018, Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London.
Almost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe
Ten authors offer novel accounts of the phenomenon of oil painting on stone surfaces in Northern and Southern Europe, from Sebastiano del Piombo’s invention at Rome in the sixteenth century to the material experimentation of later painters through the seventeenth century.
Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900
This book presents the collectors’ roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental and transcontinental European public and private collections during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras. They study the impact of class, geographical location and specific cultural contexts on the gathering and use of printed and handwritten texts and other printed artefacts. The volume explores the social dimension of book collecting, and considers how practices of collecting developed during these periods of profound cultural, social and political change.
Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance
The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo, or Michelangelo) created imaginative syntheses between their art and contemporary cosmology, philosophy, theology, and magic. The Neoplatonism in the books by Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola became widely acknowledged for its lasting influence on art. It thus became common knowledge that Renaissance artists were not exclusively concerned with problems intrinsic to their work but that their artifacts encompassed a much larger intellectual and cultural horizon. This volume brings together historians concerned with the history of their own discipline – and also those whose research is on the art and culture of the Italian Renaissance itself – with historians from a wide variety of specialist fields, in order to engage with the contested field of iconology. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance history, Renaissance studies, historiography, philosophy, theology, gender studies, and literature.
Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples
This volume deals with natural disasters in late medieval and early modern central and southern Italy. Contributions look at a range of catastrophic events such as eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, floods, earthquakes, and outbreaks of plague and epidemics. A major aim of this volume is to investigate the relationship between catastrophic events and different communication strategies that embraced politics, religion, propaganda, dissent, scholarship as well as collective responses from the lower segments of society. The contributors to this volume share a multidisciplinary approach to the study of natural disasters which draws on disciplines such as cultural and social history, anthropology, literary theory, and linguistics. Together with analyzing the prolific production of propagandistic material and literary sources issued in periods of acute crisis, the documentation on disasters studied in this volume also includes laws and emergency regulations, petitions and pleas to the authorities, scientific and medical treatises, manuscript and printed newsletters as well as diplomatic dispatches and correspondence.
Pietro Testa
Bislang galt das Interesse der Forschung den Zeichnungen, der Druckgraphik und Kunsttheorie von Pietro Testa. Die Malerei hat dagegen nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Die vorliegende Publikation untersucht erstmals das malerische Œuvre eines Künstlers, der zwischen 1628 und 1650 in Rom und Lucca tätig war. Mit dem Ziel, den Künstler im Kontext der römischen Barockmalerei neu zu positionieren, wird die Malerei nicht als isoliertes Phänomen innerhalb des Schaffens von Pietro Testa behandelt, sondern stets in Beziehung zu seinen Zeichnungen und Radierungen, seiner Kunsttheorie und seinem sozialen Umfeld gesetzt. Das Verhältnis des Malers zu Auftraggebern wie Cassiano dal Pozzo, Vincenz...
Close Reading
Close Reading puts the artwork in the center of concentrated art-historical interpretations programmatically. Seventy-two international authors each analyze one work of architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing, or graphic work, from Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald, to Titian, Artemisia Gentileschi, Michelangelo, and Nicolas Poussin, Francesco Borromini, and Fischer von Erlach, to Oskar Kokoschka and Shirin Neshat. They pursue various methodological approaches, address the creation context or questions regarding dating and attribution, the history of a collection, provenance, and restoration, or dedicate themselves to relationships between picture and text as well as to iconographic, iconological, and image-theory aspects.
Steinformen
Die natürliche Genese von Steinen eignet sich besonders als Produktionsparadigma mimetischer Kunst, wie etwa Fels- und Korallenformen oder Marmoräderungen als Ausprägungen der natürlichen Gestaltkräfte zeigen. Künstlerische Materialien vermitteln zwischen Idee und Ausführung und prägen den Werkprozess. Die Formung des Materials legt Bedeutungsebenen des Werkes ebenso frei, wie die spezifische Form eines Materials Möglichkeiten der Bedeutungsgenerierung bietet. Die Nachahmung natürlicher Materialien ist weitaus mehr als ein Materialersatz oder das Herausstellen eigener künstlerischer Fertigkeiten. Die Beiträge in diesem Buch beleuchten die Imitation des Naturmaterials Stein als künstlerisches Vermögen, das Wechselspiel von natürlichen und artifiziellen Materialqualitäten zu gestalten.
