Bravura (eBook)

Virtuosity and Ambition in Early Modern European Painting

Nicola Suthor (Autor)

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2021
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21343-9 (ISBN)

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The first major history of the bravura movement in European paintingThe painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and spread throughout Europe during the seventeenth century. While earlier artistic movements presented a polished image of the artist by downplaying the creative process, bravura celebrated a painter's distinct materials, virtuosic execution, and theatrical showmanship. This resulted in the further development of innovative techniques and a popular understanding of the artist as a weapon-wielding acrobat, impetuous wunderkind, and daring rebel. In Bravura, Nicola Suthor offers the first in-depth consideration of bravura as an artistic and cultural phenomenon. Through history, etymology, and in-depth analysis of works by such important painters as Fran?ois Boucher, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens, Tintoretto, and Diego Velazquez, Suthor explores the key elements defining bravura's richness and power.Suthor delves into how bravura's unique and groundbreaking methods-visible brushstrokes, sharp chiaroscuro, severe foreshortening of the body, and other forms of visual emphasis-cause viewers to feel intensely the artist's touch. Examining bravura's etymological history, she traces the term's associations with courage, boldness, spontaneity, imperiousness, and arrogance, as well as its links to fencing, swordsmanship, henchmen, mercenaries, and street thugs. Suthor discusses the personality cult of the transgressive, self-taught, antisocial genius, and the ways in which bravura artists, through their stunning displays of skill, sought applause and admiration.Filled with captivating images by painters testing the traditional boundaries of aesthetic excellence, Bravura raises important questions about artistic performance and what it means to create art.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.2.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 89 color + 46 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Allusion • Altarpiece • Ambitious Form • Andrea Schiavone • Anecdote • Annibale Carracci • Anthony van Dyck • Antoine Coypel • Apelles • Aretino • Art Critic • Art criticism • Art History • Ascanio Condivi • Basilica • Beheading of John the Baptist • Benvenuto Cellini • Bernard Weinberg • Biblioteca Marciana • bravare • Calculation • Caravaggio • Cavaliere Mattia Preti • Chiaroscuro • Connoisseur • copying • Cortona • decapitation • Decorum • depiction • De pictura • diligenza • Domenichino • drapery • drawing • Easel • Ekphrasis • Eloquence • engraving • erudition • ferocita • fierezza • Fine Art • forehead • franchezza • Francisco de Holanda • Francisco Goya • Francois Boucher • Genre painting • Giambattista Piazzetta • Giorgione • Giorgio Vasari • Giovannie Battista Armenini • Giulio Romano • Giuseppe Cesari • Guido Reni • Henry Fuseli • Hercules and Omphale • High Art • History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance • History Painting • humiliation • Il Bravo • Il far presto • I Modi • Impasto • imprimatura • Invention • Jacopo Bassano • Jean-Honore Fragonard • Joachim von Sandrart • Jupiter, Neptune, and Plato • Las hilanderas • Las Hilanderas (Velázquez) • Lecture • Leon Battista Alberti • Literature • Lodovico Dolce • Luca Giordano • Malle Babbe • Mannerism • Marcantonio Raimondi • Marco Boschini • Martyrdom of Saint Agatha • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Michael Cole • Michael Polanyi • Michelangelo • narrative • non finito • oil paint • painting • Painting (Blue Star) • Panegyric • Paolo Pino • Paolo Veronese • Parmigianino • Perspective (graphical) • Philip Sohm • Physiognomy • Pietro Aretino • Pietro da Cortona • Pietro Testa • Pigment • pittoresco • Portraits de Fantaisie • prestezza • Protogenes • Putto • Raphael • Renaissance • Requirement • Rijksmuseum • Roger de Piles • Royal Academy of England • Royal Academy of France • Salvator Rosa • Self-Portrait with a Friend • sfumato • Shading • Simon Vouet • Sophistication • sprezzatura • The Art of Painting • The Fall of Phaeton • The Fall of Phaeton (Rubens) • The Massacre of the Innocents • Tintoretto • titian • treatise • Vaghezza • Vasari • Vatican City • Veii • Venetian school (art) • work of art
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21343-7 / 0691213437
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21343-9 / 9780691213439