Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth : Vico and Neapolitan Painting /
Bull, Malcolm
Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth : Vico and Neapolitan Painting / Malcolm Bull. - Course Book - 1 online resource (160 p.) : 31 halftones. - Essays in the Arts .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- One. Vico -- Two. Icastic Painting -- Three. Fantastic Painting -- Four. Theological Painting -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena, Vico concluded that human truth was a product of the imagination. Truth was not something that could be observed: instead, it was something made in the way that paintings were made--through the exercise of fantasy. Juxtaposing paintings and texts, Bull presents the masterpieces of late Baroque painting in early eighteenth-century Naples from an entirely new perspective. Revealing the close connections between the arguments of the philosophers and the arguments of the painters, he shows how Vico drew on both in his influential philosophy of history, The New Science. Bull suggests that painting can serve not just as an illustration for philosophical arguments, but also as the model for them--that painting itself has sometimes been a form of epistemological experiment, and that, perhaps surprisingly, the Neapolitan Baroque may have been one of the routes through which modern consciousness was formed.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691138848 9781400849741
10.1515/9781400849741 doi
Art and philosophy--History--Italy--18th century.
Art and philosophy.
Malerei.
Painting--Philosophy.
Painting, Baroque--Naples.--Italy
Painting, Baroque--Italy--Naples.
Painting, Baroque.
Painting, Italian--Naples--Italy--18th century.
Painting, Italian--Italy--Naples--18th century.
Painting, Italian.
Truth.
Ästhetik.
ART / European.
Aesthetics. Analogy. Andrea Vaccaro. Andrea del Sarto. Anecdote. Annibale Carracci. Anthropomorphism. Atheism. Atomism. Augury. Bad Painting. Baroque painting. Caravaggio. Caravaggisti. Carlo Maratta. Cartesianism. Catherine of Siena. Certainty. Certosa di San Martino. Chiaroscuro. Cimabue. Classical mythology. Classicism. Consciousness. Cubism. Daniello Bartoli. Democritus. Depiction. Divine Truth. Divine judgment. Divine providence. Domenichino. Drapery. Epicurus. Exorcism. Fall of Simon Magus (Pompeo Batoni). Falsity. Flagellation of Christ. Francesco Solimena. Giambattista Vico. Giotto. God the Father. Guido Reni. Henri Bergson. Iconoclasm. Iconography. Illustration. Jules Michelet. Las Meninas. Libri Carolini. Lodovico Dolce. Luca Giordano. Lucretius. Ludovico Carracci. Mannerism. Metaphor. Metonymy. Michelangelo. Museo del Prado. Neoplatonism. Painting. Paragone. Parmigianino. Penitential. Pentimento. Petrarch. Philosopher. Philosophical skepticism. Philosophy. Pietro Aretino. Pietro da Cortona. Poetry. Putto. Religion. Rhetoric. Roman Baroque. Sacristy. Saint Dominic. Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (van Eyck). Salvator Rosa. San Domenico Maggiore. San Gregorio Armeno. Scientific skepticism. Simon Magus. Skepticism. Spanish art. Still life. Tenebrism. The Carracci. The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple. The Gay Science. The New Science. The Philosopher. Theology. Thomas Aquinas. Tintoretto. Titian. Tommaso Campanella. Truth. Zeuxis.
ND1140 / .B78 2013
759.5/73
Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth : Vico and Neapolitan Painting / Malcolm Bull. - Course Book - 1 online resource (160 p.) : 31 halftones. - Essays in the Arts .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- One. Vico -- Two. Icastic Painting -- Three. Fantastic Painting -- Four. Theological Painting -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena, Vico concluded that human truth was a product of the imagination. Truth was not something that could be observed: instead, it was something made in the way that paintings were made--through the exercise of fantasy. Juxtaposing paintings and texts, Bull presents the masterpieces of late Baroque painting in early eighteenth-century Naples from an entirely new perspective. Revealing the close connections between the arguments of the philosophers and the arguments of the painters, he shows how Vico drew on both in his influential philosophy of history, The New Science. Bull suggests that painting can serve not just as an illustration for philosophical arguments, but also as the model for them--that painting itself has sometimes been a form of epistemological experiment, and that, perhaps surprisingly, the Neapolitan Baroque may have been one of the routes through which modern consciousness was formed.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691138848 9781400849741
10.1515/9781400849741 doi
Art and philosophy--History--Italy--18th century.
Art and philosophy.
Malerei.
Painting--Philosophy.
Painting, Baroque--Naples.--Italy
Painting, Baroque--Italy--Naples.
Painting, Baroque.
Painting, Italian--Naples--Italy--18th century.
Painting, Italian--Italy--Naples--18th century.
Painting, Italian.
Truth.
Ästhetik.
ART / European.
Aesthetics. Analogy. Andrea Vaccaro. Andrea del Sarto. Anecdote. Annibale Carracci. Anthropomorphism. Atheism. Atomism. Augury. Bad Painting. Baroque painting. Caravaggio. Caravaggisti. Carlo Maratta. Cartesianism. Catherine of Siena. Certainty. Certosa di San Martino. Chiaroscuro. Cimabue. Classical mythology. Classicism. Consciousness. Cubism. Daniello Bartoli. Democritus. Depiction. Divine Truth. Divine judgment. Divine providence. Domenichino. Drapery. Epicurus. Exorcism. Fall of Simon Magus (Pompeo Batoni). Falsity. Flagellation of Christ. Francesco Solimena. Giambattista Vico. Giotto. God the Father. Guido Reni. Henri Bergson. Iconoclasm. Iconography. Illustration. Jules Michelet. Las Meninas. Libri Carolini. Lodovico Dolce. Luca Giordano. Lucretius. Ludovico Carracci. Mannerism. Metaphor. Metonymy. Michelangelo. Museo del Prado. Neoplatonism. Painting. Paragone. Parmigianino. Penitential. Pentimento. Petrarch. Philosopher. Philosophical skepticism. Philosophy. Pietro Aretino. Pietro da Cortona. Poetry. Putto. Religion. Rhetoric. Roman Baroque. Sacristy. Saint Dominic. Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (van Eyck). Salvator Rosa. San Domenico Maggiore. San Gregorio Armeno. Scientific skepticism. Simon Magus. Skepticism. Spanish art. Still life. Tenebrism. The Carracci. The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple. The Gay Science. The New Science. The Philosopher. Theology. Thomas Aquinas. Tintoretto. Titian. Tommaso Campanella. Truth. Zeuxis.
ND1140 / .B78 2013
759.5/73