{"product_id":"literature-and-artistic-practice-in-sixteenth-century-italy-9789004314870","title":"Literature and Artistic Practice in Sixteenth-Century Italy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Literature and Artistic Practice in the Sixteenth Century Angela Cerasuolo, art historian and restorer, tracks the technical processes of painting through the cross-analysis of literary texts and works of art. Having traced the critical fortunes of the texts of the authors—Leonardo, Vasari, Armenini, Borghini, Lomazzo—she compares the information on drawing and painting, analysing the specific terminology, and identifying the materials and methods. Central themes of the theoretical debate—‘disegno’, ‘invenzione’, the contrast between ‘prestezza’ and ‘diligenza’, the ‘paragone’—are examined in the light of their relationship with the techniques. On the basis of scientific studies on the technical execution of paintings, works from the Capodimonte Museum, Naples are analysed as case studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For the study of art theory, practice, and conservation science, and in delineating how to read the value and significance of technical texts in their historical context and in their in illumination of technique and style, text, and conception of art, Literature and Artistic Practice in Sixteenth-Century Italy represents a new achievement in the study of art history.”  Shancheng Ma, Ningbo University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 236-237.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION \t\tNo Man’s Land – Technical treatises   1.        “LIBRI DI BOTTEGA”: A COVERT TRANSMISSION   1.1.\tThe background  1.2.\tAmong transcriptions and abridged versions: Leonardo’s writings, the multiform life of a never-to-be-born treatise    1.3.\tThe underground circulation of Cennino Cennini’s Libro dell’arte  1.4.\t\"My intention was to only write the lives and works of our artists, and not to teach the arts\": the Introduzzione alle arti and techniques of painting in Vasari's Lives      1.5.\tIl Riposo by Raffaello Borghini: analysis of a text as a mirror of technical knowledge in the workshops at the end of the sixteenth century  1.6.\tDe’ veri precetti della pittura by Giovan Battista Armenini, a consciously \"grammatical” approach  1.7.\tThe Treatises of Giovan Paolo Lomazzo and the legacy of Leonardo in Lombardy  2.     ISSUES AND FORMS  2.1\tDisegno and invention: Schizzo, macchia, abbozzo, and the construction of the work of art  2.2.\tPrestezza and diligenza as a key for interpreting the relationship between technique and style 2.2.1.      Armenini and Vasari: symptoms of discord\t 2.2.2.\tChiaroscuro and grotesque: prestezza in two characteristic techniques of the Maniera \t 2.3.\tThe Paragone: also a technical challenge\t  2.4. \tColour and the counterfeiting of Nature 2.4.1.\tThe beauty of colours 2.4.2.\tThe atramentum of Apelles      3.\tTHE PROCESSES   3.1.\tThe technique of drawing                                                                                                                                              \t\t  3.2.\tThe preparation of cartoons. Transfer processes                                                                                                                                                 \t\t 3.3.\tColours: pigments in treatises  3.3.1.\tLists of colours in Borghini and Lomazzo\t 3.3.2. \tArmenini’s «avertimenti» on pigments 3.3.3.\tMixing the colours: from the «mestiche» to the palette  3.4.\tThe myth of «true fresco» \t\t\t\t 3.5.  \tTempera painting 3.5.1. Vasari and egg tempera: revival of an outdated technique. 3.5.2. Glue-size tempera: tüchlein, «guazzo», «chiaroscuro»   3.6. \tOil painting 3.6.1. Preparazione and imprimitura 3.6.2. The execution of a painting: «bozze» and «finiture» 3.6.3. Oil painting on wall 3.6.4.  Sebastiano del Piombo's «nuovo modo»  -  from wall to slate  3.6.5. Painting on stone from Sebastiano to Vasari and the artists of the Medici Court 3.6.6. Paintings on copper - the beginnings  3.7.\tVarnish and finishing 3.7.1. The varnishes 3.7.2. The glazes 3.7.3. Finishes and retouching   4.\tTHROUGH THE PAINTINGS: A FEW SIGNIFICANT CASE-STUDIES  4.1. Madonna del Divino Amore 4.2. Madonna della gatta  4.3. «Per questa confusione di segni» Additions to the genesis of a painting: the small paintings and the Calvary by Polidoro da Caravaggio 4.4. The Sacra Famiglia by Parmigianino 4.5. The paintings by Sebastiano del Piombo in the Capodimonte Museum, Naples  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210684391767,"sku":"9789004314870","price":187.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literature-and-artistic-practice-in-sixteenth-century-italy-9789004314870","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}