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The Matter of Violence in Baroque Painting / Bogdan Cornea.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ; 43Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048543830
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 759.046 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Images -- An Introduction -- 1. Wound: On Caravaggio’s Martyrdom of Saint Ursula -- 2. Touch: On Giovanni Lanfranco’s Saint Peter Healing Saint Agatha -- 3. Skin: On Jusepe de Ribera’s Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew -- 4. Flesh: On Georges de La Tour’s Penitent Saint Jerome -- 5. Blood: On Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes -- 6. Death: On Francisco de Zurbarán’s The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion -- Conclusion -- General Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Baroque depictions of violence are often described in art historical literature as ‘over the top’ and ‘excessive’. Their material richness, exciting visual complexity, and the visceral corporeal engagement are often explained away as reflecting the presumed violence of early modern society. The book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a sustained interpretation of primary sources of some of the most iconic works of Baroque art. It ultimately argues that such works are better understood as generative and transformative – of paintings as having the power to become – and their effect of beholders as unforeseen, violent, and excessive – a violence of sensation.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Images -- An Introduction -- 1. Wound: On Caravaggio’s Martyrdom of Saint Ursula -- 2. Touch: On Giovanni Lanfranco’s Saint Peter Healing Saint Agatha -- 3. Skin: On Jusepe de Ribera’s Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew -- 4. Flesh: On Georges de La Tour’s Penitent Saint Jerome -- 5. Blood: On Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes -- 6. Death: On Francisco de Zurbarán’s The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion -- Conclusion -- General Bibliography -- Index

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Baroque depictions of violence are often described in art historical literature as ‘over the top’ and ‘excessive’. Their material richness, exciting visual complexity, and the visceral corporeal engagement are often explained away as reflecting the presumed violence of early modern society. The book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a sustained interpretation of primary sources of some of the most iconic works of Baroque art. It ultimately argues that such works are better understood as generative and transformative – of paintings as having the power to become – and their effect of beholders as unforeseen, violent, and excessive – a violence of sensation.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023)