1st Edition
Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy Baschenis, Bettera and the Painting of Cultural Identity
By Ornat Lev-er
Copyright 2019
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy centers on the still-life compositions created by Evaristo Baschenis and Bartolomeo Bettera, two 17th-century painters living and working in the Italian city of Bergamo. This highly original study explores how these paintings form a dynamic network in which artworks, musical instruments, books, and scientific apparatuses constitute links to a dazzling... Read more
Chapter I: Introduction Chapter II: Still-Life as Culture 1. The Biographies of Evaristo Baschenis and Bartolomeo Bettera 2. Still-life painting in Seventeenth-Century Lombardy 3. Still-Life (with Musical Instruments) Is Not Just Vanitas 4. Still-Life Painting - The State of Research 5. Baschenis's and Bettera's Still-Life Paintings - The State of Research 6. Bergamo - Portrait of an Ebullient Cultural Hub Chapter III: Keeping Score: Painting Music 1. The Conception of Music in Italy of the Early Modern Period: Sounds, Words, and Colour 2. Music in Bergamo 3. The Music Paintings - Variations Composed by Baschenis and Bettera with their Paintbrush Chapter IV: Banned Books and Blockbusters 1. Books and Libraries in seventeenth-Century Bergamo 2. Books in Baschenis` paintings 3. Books in Bettera's Paintings Chapter V: A Double Act: Still-Life and Theatre 1. A Gaze at the Theatre 2. The Background and the Stage 3. Curtains 4. Table Coverings and Carpets 5. Stage Props 6. Seven Modes of Painting-Theatre Chapter VI: Paragone: May the Best Art Win 1. The Paragone 2. Painting and Music 3. Painting and Poetry 4. Painting and Sculpture 5. All of the Arts - Music, Painting, Sculpture, Literature, and Science 6. Music and Science 7. Painting, Music and Literature 8. Painting and Music in the Absence of a Paragone Chapter VII: Conclusion, Bibliography.
Biography
Ornat Lev-er earned her PhD in art history from Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. She is the co-editor of Can Art Aid in Resolving Conflicts? a joint project of IDC Israel and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
