Renaissance and baroque art: selected essays

Uittreksel

"This is the third and final volume dedicated to Steinberg's writings about early modern art. (There will also be two centered on modern art.) This volume collects Steinberg's best essays and unpublished lectures about early modern artists and sites ranging from his superb, ground-shifting texts on the Spanish painter Diego Velazquez to an amusing essay on his visit to the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, which houses artistic treasures by such luminaries as Bramante, Sansovino, Raphael, Pinturicchio, Sebastiano del Piombo, Carracci, Caravaggio, and Bernini. The other essays are, with one or two exceptions, mainly about Italian masters. The content is quite diverse, and perhaps for this reason this volume is the most pleasurable so far. Steinberg exercises his wit to good effect, and these essays, though frequently dazzling with insight, read as rather more lightly composed than those surrounding Steinberg's grand obsession, Michelangelo"--

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Introduction / Stephen J. Campbell -- Words that prevent perception -- Mantegna: did he paint by the book? -- "How shall this be?": reflections on Filippo Lippi's Annunciation in London -- Mantegna's Dead Christ: passion and pattern -- Pontormo's Capponi Chapel -- Pontormo's Alessandro de' Medici; or, I only have eyes for you -- Salviati's Beheading of St. John the Baptist -- An El Greco Entombment eyed awry -- Observations in the Cerasi Chapel -- Guercino's Saint Petronilla -- Steen's Female Gaze and other ironies -- Deciphering Velázquez's Old Woman -- The Water Carrier of Velázquez -- Velázquez's Pablo de Valladolid -- Velázquez's Las Meninas -- The glorious company.