TY - BOOK AU - Cornea,Bogdan TI - The Matter of Violence in Baroque Painting T2 - Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 SN - 9789048543830 U1 - 759.046 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Painting, Baroque KW - Themes, motives KW - Europe KW - Violence in art KW - Art and Material Culture KW - History, Art History, and Archaeology KW - Literary Theory, Criticism, and History KW - ART / History / Baroque & Rococo KW - bisacsh KW - Baroque, Violence, Painting, Materiality, Temporality, Narrative N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048543830?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048543830 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048543830/original ER -