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Literature and Artistic Practice in Sixteenth-Century Italy
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Angela Cerasuolo
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Translated by:
Helen Glanville
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English
Published/Copyright:
2017
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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.
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Angela Cerasuolo, Ph.D. (2012) Seconda Università di Napoli, is Restorer-conservator in the Museum of Capodimonte, Naples. She has published on history and theory of conservation and on painting techniques, including contribution on Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo, Polidoro, Vasari, Leonardo.
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“For the study of art theory, practice, and conservation science, and in delineating how to read the value and significance of technical texts in their historical context and in their in illumination of technique and style, text, and conception of art, Literature and Artistic Practice in Sixteenth-Century Italy represents a new achievement in the study of art history.”
Shancheng Ma, Ningbo University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 236-237.
Shancheng Ma, Ningbo University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 236-237.
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eBook published on:
January 5, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9789004335349
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480
eBook ISBN:
9789004335349
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This work is intended for scholars, researchers and post-graduate students in the field of art history and art literature, and for scholars and operators in the field of conservation.
