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In '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.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. "Libri di Bottega": A Covert Transmission
• 1.1. Background
• 1.2. Leonardo's Writings: Transcriptions and Abridged Versions, The Multiform Existence of a Never-to-be-born Treatise
• 1.3. Underground Circulation of Cennino Cennini's Libro dell'arte
• 1.4. "My Intention was to Write only of the Lives and Works of our Artists, and Not to Teach the Arts": The Introduzzione alle arti and the Technique of Painting in Vasari's Vite
• 1.5. Il Riposo by Raffaello Borghini: Analysis of a Text as a Mirror of Technical Knowledge Present in Workshops at the End of the Sixteenth Century
• 1.6. De'veri precetti della pittura by Giovan Battista Armenini
• -A Consciously "Grammatical" Approach
• 1.7. Treatises of Giovan Paolo Lomazzo and the Legacy of Leonardo in Lombardy
• 2. Issues and Forms
• 2.1. Disegno and Invention: Schizzo macchia abbozzo and the Construction of the Work of Art
• 2.2. Prestezza and Diligenza as a Key for Interpreting the Relationship between Technique and Style
• 2.2.1. Armenini and Vasari: Symptoms of Discord
• 2.2.2. Chiaroscuro and Grottesca: Prestezza in Two Techniques Characteristic of Mannerism
• 2.3. Paragone: Also a Technical Challenge
• 2.4. Colour and the Counterfeiting of Nature
• 2.4.1. Beauty of Colours
• 2.4.2. atramentum of Apelles
• 3. Processes
• 3.1. Technique of Drawing

• 3.2. Preparation of Cartoons
• -The Transfer Processes
• 3.3. Colours: Pigments in the Treatises
• 3.3.1. Lists of Pigments in Borghini and Lomazzo
• 3.3.2. Armenini's avertimenti on Pigments
• 3.3.3. Mixing the Colours: From the mestiche to the Palette
• 3.4. Myth of "True Fresco"
• 3.5. Tempera Painting
• 3.5.1. Vasari and Egg Tempera: Revival of an Outdated Technique
• 3.5.2. Glue-size Tempera: Tuchlein, guazzo, chiaroscuro
• 3.6. Oil Painting
• 3.6.1. Preparazione and Imprimitura
• 3.6.2. Execution of a Painting: Bozze and Finiture
• 3.6.3. Oil Painting on Wall
• 3.6.4. Sebastiano'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. Painting on Copper
• -The Beginnings
• 3.7. Varnish and Finishing
• 3.7.1. Varnishes
• 3.7.2. Glazes
• 3.7.3. Finishes and Retouching
• 4. Through the Paintings: A Few Significant Examples. Investigations Carried Out at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples
• 4.1. Madonna del Divino Amore
• -The Complicated Genesis of a Simple Image
• 4.2. Madonna della gatta
• -Variations on the Theme of the Holy Family
• -Raphael and Giulio Romano
• 4.3. Additions to the Genesis of a Painting: The Small Paintings and the Calvary by Polidoro da Caravaggio
• 4.4. Parmigianino's Holy Family
• 4.5. Paintings of Sebastiano del Piombo in Capodimonte.

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Author/Creator:

Cerasuolo, Angela , author

Contributors:

Glanville, Helen (Conservator) , translator

Languages:

English
Italian

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Translated from (original): Italian

Main Work:

Diligenza e prestezza [by Cerasuolo, A.] (English)

Included Works:

Diligenza e prestezza : la tecnica nella pittura e nella letteratura artistica del Cinquecento [by Cerasuolo, A.] (English)

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Literature and artistic practice in the sixteenth century [by Cerasuolo, A.] (Boston : Brill, 2016 — ISBN 9789004335349; LCCN 2016043144)

Related Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history; v. 262

Brill's studies in intellectual history > Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history; v. 17

Subjects:

Painting, Renaissance — Italy

Painting, Italian — 16th century

Painting — Technique — Early works to 1800

Painting, Italian — 16th century — Expertising — Italy — Naples

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-471) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

ND615 .C3713 2017eb

ISBNs:

9789004335349 (electronic bk.)
900433534X (electronic bk.)
9789004314870 [Invalid]
9004314873 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

970636354

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4790422 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp13400003