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Painting the Instant of Death in Early Modern Europe: Dying and Time book cover

1st Edition

Painting the Instant of Death in Early Modern Europe Dying and Time

By Itay Sapir Copyright 2027
210 Pages 20 Color & 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume traces the evolution of the pictorial representation – and, more often than not, the visual effacement – of the instant of death in Europe between the Renaissance and the middle of the seventeenth century. Chapters show how artistic choices tackling the visual depiction of “death events” (i.e. death taking place, as opposed to the long processes of agony on the one hand and mourning... Read more

1. Introduction: Philosophies of Time, Lessons in Natural History, Theories of Art  2. Tactics of Evasion: Renaissance (Non-)Representation of Death Events  3. Playful Ambiguity: The Bad Manners of Mannerism  4. Talking Heads, Frozen Time: Caravaggio’s Ruptures  5. Rebellious Followers: Caravaggists between Continuity and Nuance  6. Kings and Boars: Rubens’s Baroque Tergiversations  7. The Story Goes on: Death and Depth in Poussin  8. Conclusion: The Modernity of the Instant of Death

Biography

Itay Sapir is Professor in the Department of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His research explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century painting within its theoretical, philosophical, political, and scientific contexts. He is author of Ténébres sans leçons: Esthétique et épistémologie de la peinture ténébriste romaine, 1595–1610 (2012).

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