Painters and Sitters in Early Seventeenth-Century Rome: Portraits of the Soul - Couverture rigide

Brepols Publishers

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 2503590837 ISBN 13 : 9782503590837

Editeur : Brepols N.V., 2023

Synopsis

Significant innovations in portraiture occurred during the transitional period from the end of the sixteenth-century to the early seventeenth-century in Rome. Portraits by Annibale Carracci, Valentin de Boulogne, Anthony van Dyck, Simon Vouet and Gianlorenzo Bernini display a loosening of formality and a trend towards movement. These artists produced a portrait type that was more inclusive of the viewer, more communicative, more revealing of a private face. The portraits in this study were less likely to celebrate achievements, family or social standing, titles, rank or station. Instead they portray individuals who exist apart from their professional personae. They reveal unique and characteristic traits of their subjects captured at a particular moment in time. They used subtle affetti, painting technique and colour to express mood and atmosphere and evoke the presence of the sitter. The sitters include poets, courtiers, buffoons and the artists themselves, and each composition is attentive to the thoughts, emotions and imaginative life of the individuals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brepols N.V.
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 2503590837
• ISBN 13: 9782503590837
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible