Representing from Life in Seventeenth-century Italy / / Sheila McTighe.

In drawing or painting from live models and real landscapes, more was at stake for artists in early modern Italy than achieving greater naturalism. To work with the model in front of your eyes, and to retain their identity in the finished work of art, had an impact on concepts of artistry and author...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ; 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Illustration List
  • Introduction: From Life
  • 1. Caravaggio’s Physiognomy
  • 2. Jacques Callot, Drawing Dal Vivo in 1620: Commerce in Florence, Piracy on the High Seas
  • 3. Jacques Callot’s Capricci di varie figure (1617): The Allusive Imagery of the Everyday, Represented ‘from Life’ and Emulating a Text
  • 4. The Motif of the Shooting Man, and Capturing the Urban Scene: Claude Lorrain and the Bamboccianti
  • 5. The absent eyewitness: the Revolt of Masaniello and depiction dal vivo in the middle of the seventeenth century
  • Conclusion
  • Index