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Étiqueté : artists

Parution : Theresa Flanigan et Trinita Kennedy (dir.), “Artistic Encounters in Trecento Italy”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

The fourteenth century in Italy, the age of Giotto, Dante, and Boccaccio, widely known as the trecento, was a pivotal moment in art history and in European culture. The studies in this volume present new approaches to art in this important but often neglected period of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Scholars at various stages in their careers discuss a wide range of topics including architecture, materiality, politics, patronage, and devotion, contributing to...

Parution : Michela di Macco (dir.), Natura e artificio nell’Europa del Seicento e Settecento, Florence, Olschki, 2023

A cavallo tra Sei e Settecento il rapporto tra Natura e Artificio assume centralità nel dibattito tra scienziati, artisti, accademici, conoscitori, amateurs, collezionisti. Muovendosi tra Roma, Parigi, Torino, la Gran Bretagna e altrove, gli autori dei saggi raccolti in questo libro offrono nuove ricerche su argomenti allora centrali: la bellezza nell’Accademia arcadica romana, l’arredo pittorico del paesaggio idealizzato, il collezionismo di grafica dei soggetti di natura, l’interpretazione demitizzata del naturale, l’integrazione nella forma urbana tra natura...

Parution : Esther Theiler, “Painters and Sitters in Early-Seventeenth Century Rome”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023

Significant innovations in portraiture occurred during the transitional period from the end of the sixteenth-century to the early seventeenth-century in Rome. Portraits by Annibale Carracci, Valentin de Boulogne, Anthony van Dyck, Simon Vouet and Gianlorenzo Bernini display a loosening of formality and a trend towards movement. These artists produced a portrait type that was more inclusive of the viewer, more communicative, more revealing of a private face. The portraits in this study were less likely...