After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the Sixteenth Century

by Marcia B. Hall

• ISBN13: 9780521483971
• ISBN10: 0521483972
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

After Raphael is the first comprehensive overview of sixteenth-century Italian painting to be published in over 30 years. Reevaluating the paintings of Raphael, Michelangelo, Pontormo, Rosso, Bronzino, the Caracci and their followers in the light of recent research, Marcia Hall offers a new interpretation for the stylistic shifts that occurred after 1520. By taking into account the social, cultural, political, theological, and patronage issues that affected taste and stylistic developments, she demonstrates how the revival of interest in antique Roman sculpture relief affected Mannerist painters. She also examines the repercussions of the Protestant Reformation, which changed forever the Church's view of the function of images. Finally, Hall explores the new syntax and vocabulary of ornament in the realm of public and private decoration that provided a legacy that would be used for the next three centuries.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
A Note on Style Labels	xii
Acknowledgments	xvi
Introduction	1	(11)
The High Renaissance	12	(43)
The 1520s in Florence and Rome	55	(40)
The Diaspora of Roman Style	95	(34)
The Roman Restoration	129	(44)
The Counter-Reformation in Rome	173	(42)
Ducal Florence	215	(42)
The End of the Century in Rome	257	(36)
Notes	293	(28)
Bibliography	321	(14)
Photographic Sources	335	(2)
Index	337