1st Edition
Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting Ideology, Practice, and Criticism
By Daniel M. Unger
Copyright 2019
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting. Ideology, Practice, and Criticism focuses on the unique nature of early modern Bolognese painting that found its expression in stylistic diversity. The flourishing of different stylistic approaches in the Mannerist paintings of the previous generation evolved, at the turn the seventeenth century, in the work of the Bolognese painters... Read more
List of Plates and Figures Preface Introduction Chapter One: Defining Eclecticism - Assimilated Eclecticism - Vasari's Raphael - Arbitrary Eclecticism - Non-Assimilated Eclecticism - A Definition Chapter Two: Ideology - Gabriele Paleotti's Discourse on Sacred Images - A Pictorial Manifest: Alliance between Disegno and Colore - Carlo Cesare Malvasia and the Assemblage of Styles Chapter Three: Practice - The Terrestrial and Celestial Realms - Portraits of Saints: St. Carlo Borromeo - Other Eclectic Paintings Chapter Four: Criticism - Winckelmann's Introduction of Eclecticism into Artistic Discourse - The Nineteenth-Century Juste milieu - The Dismissal of Eclecticism in the Twentieth Century, Conclusion: The Eclectic Approach Epilogue: Eclecticism in a Roman Chapel, Works Cited
Biography
Daniel M. Unger teaches the History of Early Modern Art at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. His research focuses on seventeenth-century Bolognese and Roman painting. His recent book Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting: Ideology, Practice, and Criticism was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2019.
