TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lev-er,Ornat
TI  - Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy: Baschenis, Bettera and the Painting of Cultural Identity 
T2  - Visual and Material Culture, 1300 -1700
SN  - 9789048541133
U1  - 758.40945 
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Artists
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Italy
KW  - Still-life painting, Italian
KW  - Art and Material Culture
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Early Modern Studies
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - ART / History / Baroque & Rococo
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Bergamo, Paragone, Still Life, Music, Culture, Conceit
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Table of Contents --; List of Figures --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Still-Life as Culture --; 3. Keeping Score: Painting Music --; 4. Banned Books and Blockbusters --; 5. A Double Act: Still-Life and Theatre --; 6. Paragone: May the Best Art Win --; 7. Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy centers on the still-life compositions created by Evaristo Baschenis and Bartolomeo Bettera, two 17th-century painters living and working in the Italian city of Bergamo. This highly original study explores how these paintings form a dynamic network in which artworks, musical instruments, books, and scientific apparatuses constitute links to a dazzling range of figures and sources of knowledge. Putting into circulation a wealth of cultural information and ideas and mapping a complex web of social and intellectual relations, these works paint a portrait of both their creators and their patrons, while enacting a lively debate among humanist thinkers, aristocrats, politicians, and artists. Engaging with literary blockbusters and banned books, theatrical artifice and music, and staging a war among the arts, Baschenis and Bettera capture the latest social intrigues, political rivalries, intellectual challenges, and scientific innovations of their time. In doing so, they structure an unstable economy of social, aesthetic, and political values that questions the notion of absolute truth, while probing the distinctions between life and artifice, meaningless marks and meaningful signs
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048541133?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048541133
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048541133/original
ER  -