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The Craft of art : originality and industry in the Italian Renaissance and baroque workshop / edited by Andrew Ladis and Carolyn Wood ; William U. Eiland, general editor.
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English
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Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1995.
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viii, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
N6915 .C73 1995
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Art, Italian
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Congresses
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Art, Renaissance
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Italy
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Art, Baroque
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Italy
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Group work in art
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Italy
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Museo Horne (Florence, Italy)
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Dixon Gallery and Gardens
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Georgia Museum of Art
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Ladis, Andrew, 1949-2007
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Wood, Carolyn H.
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Eiland, William U.
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Summary note
In this collection of nine essays some of the preeminent art historians in the United States consider the relationship between art and craft, between the creative idea and its realization, in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. The essays, all previously unpublished, are devoted to the pictorial arts and are accompanied by nearly 150 illustrations. Examining works by such artists as Michelangelo, Titian, Volterrano, Giovanni di Paolo, and Annibale Carracci (along with aspects of the artists' creative processes, work habits, and aesthetic convictions), the essayists explore the ways in which art was conceived and produced at a time when collaboration with pupils, assistants, or independent masters was an accepted part of the artistic process.
The consensus of the contributors amounts to a revision, or at least a qualification, of Bernard Berenson's interpretation of the emergent Renaissance ideal of individual "genius" as a measure of original artistic achievement. This new perspective accords greater influence to the collaborative, appropriative conventions and practices of the craft workshop, which persisted into and beyond the Renaissance from its origins in the Middle Ages. Consequently, say the contributors, we must acknowledge the sometimes rather ordinary beginnings of some of the world's great works of art. Such an admission will open new avenues of study and enhance our understanding of the complex connections between invention and execution.
Notes
Papers from a symposium held on the occasion of an exhibition of works from the Horne Museum, Florence, Italy; the exhibition was presented at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis and the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Artist's hand / Paul Barolsky
The Craftsman's genius: painters, patrons, and drawings in trecento Siena / Hayden B.J. Maginnis
Sources and resources: the lost sketchbooks of Giovanni di Paolo / Andrew Ladis
Titian and the idea of originality in the Renaissance / Bruce Cole
Instruction and originality in Michelangelo's drawings / W.E. Wallace
The Earliest collaborations of Pontormo and Bronzino: the Certosa, the Capponi chapel, and the Dead Christ with the virgin and Magdalen / Elizabeth Pilliod
Drawings as means to an end: preparatory methods in the Carracci school / Diane de Grazia
De Rossi and Falda: a successful collaboration in the print industry of seventeenth-century Rome / Francesca Consagra
Volterrano and the role of Imitatio in the seventeenth-century practice of art in Florence / Malcolm Campbell.
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ISBN
0820316482 ((alk. paper))
9780820316482 ((alk. paper))
9780820349947 ((paperback))
0820349941 ((paperback))
LCCN
93040992
OCLC
29387743
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