Sixteenth-century Italian Art

by Cole, Michael W.

• ISBN13: 9781405108409
• ISBN10: 1405108401
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Sixteenth-Century Italian Art is a stellar collection of 23 classic and recent essays on the art and architecture of this fascinating period in art history. Organized thematically, the book introduces major topics and debates in the field, including pagan mysteries, nature and artifice, the art of the body, and "reformations" of art, theory and practice. Several of these essays are appearing in English for the first time.Complete with substantial editorial introductions, the anthology presents a range of approaches to works of sixteenth-century Italian art. Highlighting themes on which Italian Renaissance studies from the last half-century have focused, this book is ideal for introductory courses.

Author Biography

Michael W. Cole is Associate Professor of Southern European Renaissance and Baroque Art at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Cellini and the Principles of Sculpture (2002).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Series Editor's Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(4)
Michael W. Cole
Part I Pagan Mysteries	5	(84)
Introduction	7	(3)
Raphael's Tomb	10	(15)
Tilmann Buddensieg
St. Peter's as Ruins: On some vedute by Heemskerck	25	(15)
Christof Thoenes
Virtue Reconciled with Pleasure	40	(16)
Edgar Wind
Love's Sweet Poison: A New Reading of Bronzino's London Allegory	56	(33)
Robert W. Gaston
Part II Nature and Artifice	89	(78)
Introduction	91	(3)
Science and the Poetic Impulse	94	(21)
Martin J. Kemp
Mannerist Grottos in Sixteenth-Century Italy	115	(20)
Philippe Morel
Imitation, Innovation, and Renovation in the Counter-Reformation: Landscapes all'antica in the Vatican Tower of the Winds	135	(18)
Nicola Courtright
Landscapes and Still Lifes	153	(14)
Pamela M. Jones
Part III Figures and Bodies	167	(74)
Introduction	169	(3)
Preparing to Finish: Portraits by Pontormo and Bronzino around 1530	172	(11)
Elizabeth Cropper
The Mistress in the Masterpiece	183	(13)
Nancy J. Vickers
Michelangelo's Florentine Pieta: The Missing Leg	196	(22)
Leo Steinberg
Reclining Bodies: Figural Ornament in Renaissance Architecture	218	(23)
Alina Payne
Part IV The Artist	241	(60)
Introduction	243	(3)
The New Professionalism in the Renaissance	246	(29)
Catherine Wilkinson
On Some Engravings by Giorgio Ghisi Commonly Called ``Reproductive''	275	(16)
Michael Bury
The Historian and the Technique: On the Role of Goldsmithery in Vasari's Lives	291	(10)
Marco Collareta
Part V Reformations	301	(102)
Introduction	303	(3)
Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna	306	(18)
Charles de Tolnay
Gifts for Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna	324	(44)
Alexander Nagel
The Gesu in the Light of Contemporary Church Design	368	(20)
James S. Ackerman
The Carracci and the Devout Style in Emilia	388	(15)
Charles Dempsey
Part VI Theory and Practice	403	(134)
Introduction	405	(3)
Leonardo's Color and Chiaroscuro	408	(33)
John Shearman
The Subject of Savoldo's Magdalene	441	(44)
Mary Pardo
Figure come fratelli: A Transformation of Symmetry in Renaissance Painting	485	(26)
David Summers
Raphael, Angelo Colocci, and the Genesis of the Architectural Orders	511	(26)
Ingrid D. Rowland
Index	537