The Matter of Violence in Baroque Painting / / Bogdan Cornea.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Cornea, Bogdan,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ; 43
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)

Baroque depictions of violence are often described in art historical literature as ‘over the top’ and ‘excessive’. Their material richness, exciting visual complexity, and the visceral corporeal engagement are often explained away as reflecting the presumed violence of early modern society. The book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a sustained interpretation of primary sources of some of the most iconic works of Baroque art. It ultimately argues that such works are better understood as generative and transformative – of paintings as having the power to become – and their effect of beholders as unforeseen, violent, and excessive – a violence of sensation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Images -- An Introduction -- 1. Wound: On Caravaggio’s Martyrdom of Saint Ursula -- 2. Touch: On Giovanni Lanfranco’s Saint Peter Healing Saint Agatha -- 3. Skin: On Jusepe de Ribera’s Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew -- 4. Flesh: On Georges de La Tour’s Penitent Saint Jerome -- 5. Blood: On Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes -- 6. Death: On Francisco de Zurbarán’s The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion -- Conclusion -- General Bibliography -- Index