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Arts of Power
Jacob Burckhardt claimed that the state in Renaissance Italy became a work of art. In this book, the authors illiminate the corollary: that art in Italy became a work of state. They study centres of power under three distinctive governments - a civic republic of the 14th century, a princely court of the 15th, and an absolutist state of the 16th. The authors argue that, no less than armies, laws and taxes, painted halls of state were strategic instruments, tactical weapons and technical machines of government.
Bernini
"The brilliantly expressive clay models created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) as "sketches" for his works in marble offer extraordinary insights into his creative imagination. Although long admired, the terracotta models have never been the subject of such detailed examination. This publication presents a wealth of new discoveries (including evidence of the artist's fingerprints imprinted on the clay), resolving lingering issues of attribution while giving readers a vivid sense of how the artist and his assistants fulfilled a steady stream of monumental commissions. Essays describe Bernini's education as a modeler; his approach to preparatory drawings; his use of assistants; and the response to his models by 17th-century collectors. Extensive research by conservators and art historians explores the different types of models created in Bernini's workshop. Richly illustrated, Bernini transforms our understanding of the sculptor and his distinctive and fascinating working methods."--Publisher's website.
Roma di Mario Dell'Arco
“Occorre dire con chiarezza” ha scritto recentemente Pietro Gibellini “che Mario dell'Arco entra nello scelto manipolo dei poeti della letteratura italiana senza aggettivi, e senza limitazioni di tempo”. Il Catalogo della Mostra Roma di Mario dell'Arco: poesia & architettura si affianca alla pubblicazione di Tutte le poesie romanesche (a cura di Carolina Marconi) e al Convegno di studi su Mario dell'Arco (Fondazione Besso). Il Comitato per la celebrazione del centenario ha inteso rendere integrati e complementari i tre eventi. In questo quadro, la Mostra delinea un panorama generale della poliedrica produzione di Mario dell'Arco, rimandando al Convegno per gli approfondimenti critici...
Bernini's Biographies
Unique among early modern artists, the Baroque painter, sculptor, and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini was the subject of two monographic biographies published shortly after his death in 1680: one by the Florentine connoisseur and writer Filippo Baldinucci (1682), and the second by Bernini's son, Domenico (1713). This interdisciplinary collection of essays by historians of art and literature marks the first sustained examination of the two biographies, first and foremost as texts. A substantial introductory essay considers each biography's author, genesis, and foundational role in the study of Bernini. Nine essays combining art-historical research with insights from philology, literary history,...
Bernini's Michelangelo
A novel exploration of the threads of continuity, rivalry, and self-conscious borrowing that connect the Baroque innovator with his Renaissance paragon Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), like all ambitious artists, imitated eminent predecessors. What set him apart was his lifelong and multifaceted focus on Michelangelo Buonarroti—the master of the previous age. Bernini’s Michelangelo is the first comprehensive examination of Bernini’s persistent and wide-ranging imitation of Michelangelo’s canon (his art and its rules). Prevailing accounts submit that Michelangelo’s pervasive, yet controversial, example was overcome during Bernini’s time, when it was rejected as an advantageous m...
The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
"A critical translation of the unabridged Italian text of Domenico Bernini's biography of his father, seventeenth-century sculptor, architect, painter, and playwright Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Includes commentary on the author's data and interpretations, contrasting them with other contemporary primary sources and recent scholarship"--Provided by publisher.
Le Colonne e il tempio di Salomone
Nella tradizione giudaico-cristiana Salomone costruisce il Tempio di Gerusalemme utilizzando le stesse proporzioni dettate da Dio per il Tabernacolo: è Dio quindi il vero architetto. Più volte distrutto e ricostruito, il Tempio esercitò una eccezionale influenza su teologi, storici e artisti sotto il triplice profilo architettonico, cosmologico e teologico. L edificio sorgeva in un luogo sacro alle tre religioni monoteiste. Per gli ebrei rappresenta lo splendore del periodo salomonico, con la gloria di custodire l Arca dell Alleanza e le Tavole della Legge. Per i cristiani costituisce la cerniera tra Vecchio e Nuovo Testamento. Per gli islamici è il luogo della Cupola della Roccia, edifi...
Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period
From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders some of the events, habits and spaces that contributed to defining exhibition practices and shaping the imagery of the exhibition space in the early modern period. The contributors encourage connections between art history, exhibition studies, and architectural history, and explore micro-histories and long-term changes in order to open new perspectives for studying these pioneering exhibition-making practices. Aiming to understand what spaces have done and still do to art, the book explores an underdeveloped area in the field that has yet to trace its interdisciplinary nature and understand its place in the history of art. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, exhibition history, and architectural history.
Studi su Mario dell'Arco
La celebrazione del centenario di Mario dell’Arco, promossa nel 2005, trova in questo volume un complemento di riflessione critica alle due pubblicazioni che l’hanno preceduto: l’Opera Omnia a cura di Carolina Marconi e la Roma di Mario dell’Arco: poesia & architettura a cura di Marcello Fagiolo e Carolina Marconi. Si raccolgono qui, con alcune integrazioni, gli studi confluiti nel Convegno su Dell’Arco svoltosi nell’ottobre 2005 presso la Fondazione Marco Besso. La produzione lirica di Dell’Arco è fatta oggetto di una valutazione interdisciplinare, nella quale convergono studiosi di varie provenienze e discipline, a testimonianza che la fortuna critica di cui il Poeta ha godu...
The Art of Religion
Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, at which Bernini was the principal artist. The analysis of Pallavicino's writings offers a new perspective on Bernini's art and artistry and allow us to understand the visual arts in papal Rome as a 'making manifest' of the fundamental truths of faith. Pallavicino's views on art and its effects differ fundamentally from the perspective developed in Bernini's biographies offering a perspective on the tension between artist and patron, work and message. In Pallavicino's writings the visual arts emerge as being intrinsically bound up with the very core of religion involving questions of idolatry, mimesis and illusionism that would prove central to the aesthetic debates of the eighteenth century.
