{"product_id":"the-matter-of-violence-in-baroque-painting-9789463727808","title":"The Matter of Violence in Baroque Painting","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaroque 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eList of Images \u003cbr\u003eAn Introduction \u003cbr\u003eChapter One. Wound: On Caravaggio’s Martyrdom of Saint Ursula \u003cbr\u003eChapter Two. Touch: On Giovanni Lanfranco’s Saint Peter Healing Saint Agatha \u003cbr\u003eChapter Three. Skin: On Jusepe de Ribera’s Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew \u003cbr\u003eChapter Four. Flesh: On Georges de la Tour’s Penitent Saint Jerome \u003cbr\u003eChapter Five. Blood: On Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes \u003cbr\u003eChapter Six. Death: On Francisco de Zurbarán’s Martyrdom of Saint Serapion \u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003cbr\u003eGeneral Bibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473244066135,"sku":"9789463727808","price":91.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789463727808.jpg?v=1744905838","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-matter-of-violence-in-baroque-painting-9789463727808","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}