Bravura : : Virtuosity and Ambition in Early Modern European Painting / / Nicola Suthor.

The first major history of the bravura movement in European paintingThe painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and spread throughout Europe during the seventeenth century. While earlier artistic movements presented a polished image of the artist by downplaying the creat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 89 color + 46 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • BRAVURA
  • Introduction
  • 1 Celebrations of violence
  • 2 The figural tour de force
  • 3 The spatial tour de force
  • 4 Bravura as painterly style
  • 5 Communicating artifice
  • 6 Economies of practice
  • 7 Arte-factum: the feminizing bravura
  • 8 Endangering the youth
  • 9 The academic response
  • 10 Reenactments and echoes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Photo Credits