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This book focuses on the unique nature of early modern Bolognese painting that found its expression in stylistic diversity. The flourishing of different stylistic approaches in the Mannerist paintings of the previous generation evolved, at the turn the seventeenth century, in the work of the Bolognese painters into an approach best described as eclecticism, characterized by the combination of two or more styles in a single work of art. Eclectic was a major innovation and major contribution to the history of art. But it then also became a critical term that suffered much negative press. The book therefore also traces the role of eclecticism as a concept in the evolution of criticism and scholarship about the Bolognese school of painting over 250 years, showing how the dramatically vacillating attitudes towards this concept shaped the historical view of the Bolognese painters, ultimately having a tremendous dampening impact on our understanding of seventeenth-century art.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Defining Eclecticism
• Assimilated Eclecticism
• Vasari's Raphael
• Arbitrary Eclecticism
• Non-Assimilated Eclecticism
• A Definition
• 2. Ideology
• Gabriele Paleotti's Discourse on Sacred Images
• Pictorial Manifest: Alliance between Disegno and Colore
• Carlo Cesare Malvasia and the Assemblage of Styles
• 3. Practice
• Terrestrial and Celestial Realms
• Portraits of Saints: St. Carlo Borromeo's Effigy
• Other Eclectic Paintings
• 4. Criticism
• Winckelmann's Introduction of Eclecticism into Artistic Discourse
• Nineteenth-Century juste milieu
• Dismissal of Eclecticism in the Twentieth Century
• Conclusion
• Eclectic Approach

• Epilogue
• Eclecticism in a Roman Chapel.

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Author/Creator:

Unger, Daniel M. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Redefining eclecticism in early modern Bolognese painting: ideology, practice, and criticism [by Unger, D.M.]

Subjects:

Painting, Italian — History

Painting — Italy — Bologna — History

Painting, Modern

General Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

ND614 .U64 2019eb

ISBNs:

9789048537259 (electronic bk.)
9048537258 (electronic bk.)
9462986010 [Invalid]
9789462986015 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1088722739

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5719551 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp16080146