Groundwork (eBook)

A History of the Renaissance Picture

David Young Kim (Autor)

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2022
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23847-0 (ISBN)

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An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance paintingThe Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic foreshortening of the body to create depth to the subtle blending of tones and colors to achieve greater naturalism. Yet these techniques rely on a powerful compositional element that often goes overlooked. Groundwork provides the first in-depth examination of the complex relationship between figure and ground in Renaissance painting.';Ground' can refer to the preparation of a work's surface, the fictive floor or plane, or the background on which figuration occurs. In laying the material foundation, artists perform groundwork, opening the ground as a zone that can precede, penetrate, or fracture the figure. David Young Kim looks at the work of Gentile da Fabriano, Giovanni Bellini, Giovanni Battista Moroni, and Caravaggio, reconstructing each painter's methods to demonstrate the intricacies involved in laying ground layers whose translucency and polychromy permeate the surface. He charts significant transitions from gold ground painting in the Trecento to the darkened grounds in Baroque tenebrism, and offers close readings of period texts to shed new light on the significance of ground forms such as rock face, wall, and cave.This beautifully illustrated book reconceives the Renaissance picture, revealing the passion and mystery of groundwork and discovering figuration beyond the human figure.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.10.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 105 color + 6 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: adage • Altarpiece • Arma Christi • Art History • Basilica • bembo • black people • Calligraphy • Caravaggio • Cennino Cennini • Chiaroscuro • Daniele da Volterra • De Architectura • depiction • Domenico Fetti • Dosso Dossi • Duccio • Essay • fabulation • Fall of Simon Magus (Pompeo Batoni) • figurative art • Figure of Speech • Filarete • Fra Angelico • Frick Collection • Friedrich Nietzsche • Galleria Borghese • Galleria Nazionale Dell'Umbria • Gentile da Fabriano • Gesso • gilding • Giorgio Vasari • Giotto • Giovanni Baglione • Giovanni Battista Moroni • Giovanni Bellini • Giovanni Boccaccio • Giulio Romano • Giuseppe Cesari • gold leaf • Grisaille • Henry Clay Frick • Iconography • Impasto • imprimatura • Italian renaissance • Jacopo Bassano • Jan van Eyck • La Verna • lead poisoning • Leon Battista Alberti • Literature • Madonna dell'Impannata • Marriage of the Virgin (Perugino) • Metonymy • Meyer Schapiro • Middle French • narrative • oil paint • Origin Story • Painted-snipe • painting • Panel painting • Panis • Paolo Uccello • Paragone • parapet • Parchment • Parmigianino • Pastiglia • Pathosformel • picture plane • Pigment • Pinacoteca di Brera • Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo • Poetry • Racism • Renaissance Art • Saint Matthew and the Angel • Sandro Botticelli • scientific racism • Sebastiano Serlio • Simone Martini • Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio), London • Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio), Milan • Taddeo Gaddi • Tenebrism • The Battle of the Milvian Bridge (Giulio Romano) • The Philosopher • Tintoretto • titian • Uffizi • Underdrawing • Ventura Salimbeni • Vitruvius • Vittore Carpaccio • William Hogarth • woodcut • work of art • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23847-2 / 0691238472
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23847-0 / 9780691238470