The Matter of Violence in Baroque Painting

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-94-6372-780-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 176 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

Reihe: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

Baroque depictions of violence are often dismissed as ‘over the top’ and ‘excessive’. Their material richness and exciting visual complexity, together with the visceral engagement they demand from beholders, are usually explained in literature as reflecting the presumed violence of early modern society. This book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a close analysis of some of the most iconic works of the period. Baroque paintings expose or reference their materiality by insisting on various physical changes wrought through violence. This study approaches violence as the work of materiality, which has the potential to analogously stage pictorial surfaces as corporeal surfaces, where paint becomes flayed flesh, canvas threads ruptured skin, and red paint spilt blood.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cornea, Bogdan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Barock, Klassizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments, List of Images, An Introduction, Chapter One. Wound: On Caravaggio's Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, Chapter Two. Touch: On Giovanni Lanfranco's Saint Peter Healing Saint Agatha, Chapter Three. Skin: On Jusepe de Ribera's Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, Chapter Four. Flesh: On Georges de la Tour's Penitent Saint Jerome, Chapter Five. Blood: On Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes, Chapter Six. Death: On Francisco de Zurbarán's Martyrdom of Saint Serapion, Conclusion, General Bibliography, Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Bogdan Cornea is a writer and independent scholar who earned his PhD in History of Art from the University of York. He has published articles on the relationship between materiality and violence in the art of Jusepe de Ribera and on the art and architecture of eighteenth century Romania.