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1 online resource (303 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Visual and material culture, 1300-1700
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Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
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| Summary |
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 range of figures and sources of knowledge. Putting into circulation a wealth of cultural information and ideas and mapping a complex web of social and intellectual relations, these works paint a portrait of both their creators and their patrons, while enacting a lively debate among humanist thinkers, aristocrats, politicians, and artists. Engaging with literary blockbusters and banned books, theatrical artifice and music, and staging a war among the arts, Baschenis and Bettera capture the latest social intrigues, political rivalries, intellectual challenges, and scientific innovations of their time. In doing so, they structure an unstable economy of social, aesthetic, and political values that questions the notion of absolute truth, while probing the distinctions between life and artifice, meaningless marks and meaningful signs. |
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Includes bibliographical content (pages 289-298) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Still-life as culture -- Keeping score: painting music -- Banned books and blockbusters -- A double act: still-life and theatre -- Paragone: may the best art win -- Conclusion. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Baschenis, Evaristo, 1617-approximately 1677 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Baschenis, Evaristo, 1617-approximately 1677. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Bettera, Bartolomeo, 1639-approximately 1687 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bettera, Bartolomeo, 1639-approximately 1687. |
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Still-life painting, Italian -- History.
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Still-life painting, Italian. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Print version: Lev-er, Ornat. Still-life as portrait in early modern Italy. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press B.V., [2019] 9789462988804 (OCoLC)1100791258 |
| ISBN |
9789048541133 (electronic book) |
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9048541131 (electronic book) |
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9789462988804 |
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9462988803 |
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