Federico Barocci: Allure and Devotion in Late Renaissance Painting - Hardcover

Lingo, Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300121253 ISBN 13: 9780300121254

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Federico Barocci was among the most admired painters in sixteenth-century Italy, but the distinctive nature of his compelling altarpieces and their historical importance have never been fully understood. This important study relates Barocci's achievements to transformations in the theory and practice of painting during an era in which pictorial developments generated deep tensions for ecclesiastical art. Barocci was celebrated as one of the only painters whose religious works combined the sensuous allure increasingly desired in modern art with profound devotion. Through a close study of Barocci's work and of documents ranging from letters to art theory, Stuart Lingo reconstructs how the painter accomplished his artistic and cultural miracle. In so doing, he offers new insights into critical artistic issues in the late Renaissance, from the cultural significance of stylistic choices to the early development of analogies between painting and music as affective arts.

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About the Author:

Stuart Lingo is assistant professor of Renaissance Art in the Division of Art History, School of Art at the University of Washington, Seattle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0300121253
• ISBN 13: 9780300121254
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384