The artist as reader : : on education and non-education of early modern artists /

The artist as reader : : on education and non-education of early modern artists / / edited by Heiko Damm, Michael Thimann and Claus Zittel.

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Reading is apparently the greatest proof of refinement when viewed within the context of the social climb of the visual artist. It is only as reader that the artist can participate in the exclusive culture of clerics, humanists, rulers and courtiers. How did it come about that such a figure was inte...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Damm, Heiko.
Thimann, Michael.
Zittel, Claus.
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Intersections 27.
Physical Description:1 online resource (561 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Close and Extensive Reading among Artists in the Early Modern Period / Heiko Damm , Michael Thimann and Claus Zittel
  • Jacopo Pontormo: A Scholarly Craftsman / Cécile Beuzelin
  • Reading with acutezza: Lorenzo Lippi’s Literary Culture / Eva Struhal
  • Gillis van Coninxloo. Der Künstler als Leser / Martin Papenbrock
  • Pieter Lastman als Leser. Eine Künstlerbibliothek und ihre Nutzung / Christian Tico Seifert
  • The President as a Reader: Sir Joshua Reynolds and Books / Iris Wenderholm
  • Artists and Knowledge in Sixteenth-century Venice / Elsje van Kessel
  • Reading Rhetoric: Oratory in Gian Paolo Lomazzo’s Treatises on the Art of Painting / Lex Hermans
  • Hondius meets Van Mander: The Cultural Appropriation of the First Netherlandish Book on the Visual Arts System of Knowledge in a Series of Artists’ Portraits / Annette de Vries
  • Catonem narrare: Charles Le Brun as Reader and Painter of a Stoic’s Suicide / Eckhard Leuschner
  • The Collaborative Authorship of Pictorial Invention in Seventeenth-century Italy: Artist, Adviser, and Patron at Palazzo Carignano / Huub van der Linden
  • Peripatetici pariter et Platonici: Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola and the Library of the Badia Fiesolana / Angela Dressen
  • Nascentes morimur: Francisco de Holanda as Artist, Reader and Writer / Maria Berbara
  • Copying, Commonplaces, and Technical Knowledge: The Architect-Engineer as Reader / Alexander Marr
  • Bach – Mattheson. Zwei deutsche Komponisten und ihre Bücher / Rainer Bayreuther
  • An Evangelist of Taste: The Book Collection of Jerónimo Antonio Gil / Kelly Donahue-Wallace
  • Index Nominum
  • Illustrations.

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