Format:
XII, 191 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9780754666776
Series Statement:
Visual culture in early modernity
Note:
Literaturverz. S. [177 - 186]
,
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Critical responses to painterly painting. Wölfflin's Malerisch -- Italian responses to painterly brushwork -- Spanish responses to painterly brushwork -- The hand of the artist -- Velázquez and Marco Boschini -- Ch. 2. An allegory of painterly painting. Portrait? Sibyl? -- Cesare Ripa's Pittura -- The origin of painting I. : Dibutades -- The origin of painting II : Narcissus -- The origin of painting III : God -- Ch. 3. The Spinners and the triumph of Venice. The background -- The foreground I : Process and product -- The foreground II : Moving figures --Tintoretto : tirato via di pratica -- Ch. 4. The Spinners as critique. Inverting Michelangelo -- Baltasar Gracián's Agudeza -- Redefining Affetti and the hierarchy of the genres -- Ch. 5. Las Meninas : social and structural perspectives. The early descriptions -- Structure and story -- Setting -- The nobility of Velázquez ; The nobility of painting -- Ch. 6. Las Meninas : painterly polemics. Critique of theory -- Las Meninas and Poussin's self-portraits -- The mirror -- Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini wedding and Baltasar Gracián's Agudeza -- Final touches -- Bibliography.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y 1599-1660
;
Malerei
;
Geschichte 1640-1660
Author information:
Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y 1599-1660
