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The Endless Periphery
Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto's Italy
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
While the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are usually associated with Italy’s historical seats of power, some of the era’s most characteristic works are to be found in places other than Florence, Rome, and Venice. They are the product of the diversity of regions and cultures that makes up the country. In Endless Periphery, Stephen J. Campbell examines a range of iconic works in order to unlock a rich series of local references in Renaissance art that include regional rulers, patron saints, and miracles, demonstrating, for example, that the works of Titian spoke to beholders differently in Naples, Brescia, or Milan than in his native Venice. More than a series of regional microhistories, Endless Periphery tracks the geographic mobility of Italian Renaissance art and artists, revealing a series of exchanges between artists and their patrons, as well as the power dynamics that fueled these exchanges. A counter history of one of the greatest epochs of art production, this richly illustrated book will bring new insight to our understanding of classic works of Italian art.
Author / Editor information
Stephen J. Campbell is the Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor in History of Art at Johns Hopkins University.
Reviews
“In recent years no scholar has done more than Stephen Campbell to illuminate crucial aspects of Italian Renaissance art. Even so, his brilliant new book, The Endless Periphery, dramatically stakes out new territory, offering a detailed, comprehensive, culturally sensitive, and visually acute reading of Italian painting in the age of Lotto, Moretto, Gaudenzio Ferrari, and Titian (the order of names is significant)—one that overthrows prevailing ideas about the very nature of sixteenth-century Italian art as it has come down to us at the hands of a Vasari-influenced art history.”
— Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Emeritus Professor of Humanities and the History of Art“The Endless Periphery provides a startlingly new view of the central decades of the Italian Renaissance. With deep erudition and an acute eye for detail, Stephen Campbell pries the Renaissance out of the stranglehold of Giorgio Vasari’s Florentine chauvinism, which has defined the hierarchies of traditional art history since he first published his Lives of the Artists in 1550. Setting aside old assumptions about where great art can be created, Campbell invites us to see a rich landscape of artistic production in which astute artists of tremendous talent forged complex dialogues and conceptual geographies, responding to one another across the peninsula, from Sicily to Rome to Rimini to Bergamo—and many stops in between.”
"With Lorenzo Lotto's quest for commissions outside the centres of Venice, Florence and Rome as his starting point, Campbell explores Renaissance painting and networks of patronage in the regions of Italy."
— Apollo "Off the Shelf""Campbell is keen to construct a Renaissance without the biases towards the central Italian cities of Florence and Rome that characterise the work of Giorgio Vasari, an endeavour that consumes much of the first chapter. From the outset, he engages with problems of artistic mobility, encapsulated in the vexed vocabulary of ‘diffusion’ and ‘exchange’; ‘appropriation’ and ‘resistance.'"
— Scott Nethersole, Apollo"Art by both relatively well-known (Titian, Lotto) and less-known (Moretto, Romanino, Ferrari) artists, who worked in or otherwise created paintings for locations such as Genoa, Siena, and Ferrara in the 1500s, is given consideration in this beautifully illustrated volume. . . . Campbell situates these oftentimes extremely original creations in their religious and geographic contexts, and at the same time pays close attention to visual qualities. Taking an erudite, counterhistorical approach, and arguing for a 'more geographically inclusive historical paradigm,' Campbell makes an important contribution to art history. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended"
— CHOICE"Timely analysis. . . . the breadth and depth of [Campbell's] expertise are not easily duplicated. . ."
— The Art Bulletin"[The Endless Periphery] provides much food for thought for anyone interested in the debate about the relativity of artistic style and, as any good book should, opens new questions."
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Foreword
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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1 Off the Axis
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2 Place, Event, and the Geopolitics of Art
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3 The View from Messina
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4 Distant Cities
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5 Brescia and Bergamo, 1520–50:
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6 Against Titian
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
December 16, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780226481593
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eBook ISBN:
9780226481593
Keywords for this book
art; italy; lorenzo lotto; italian renaissance; florence; rome; venice; titian; naples; brescia; milan; rulers; monarchy; religion; catholicism; pope; saints; miracles; mobility; geography; artists; patrons; vasari; royal court; geopolitics; place; performance; regionalism; messina; sicilians; lombards; cesare da sesto; questione meridionale; raffaelesco; caravaggio; raphael; gaudenzio ferrari; city; pilgrimage; landscapes; loreto; varallo; excursus; moti; bergamo; naturalism; eucharist; moretto; campi; carracci; correggio; venetian painting
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
