Research Catalog

Title

Sebastiano del Piombo and the sacred image : mediating the divine in the age of reform / Marsha Libina.

Author

Libina, Marsha

Publication

• Turnhout : Brepols, [2022]
• ©2022

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Additional Authors

• Sebastiano, del Piombo, 1485-1547.
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.

Description

266 pages : color illustrations, portraits; 29 cm.

Summary

"On account of the artists' collaborative practice, Sebastiano del Piombo's oeuvre is often misconstrued as a coloristic supplement to Michelangelo's 'disegno' or as a mere extension of the older master's drawings and ideas. Marsha Libina's book complicates this narrative by offering a critical reevaluation of the devotional art of Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547), an important Venetian artist whose Roman work stands at the nexus of questions regarding art, religious reform and the largely unexplored history of artistic collaboration. Investigating new ways of understanding Sebastiano's interest in soliciting Michelangelo's drawings as catalysts of invention, Libina tells the story of a collaboration driven neither by a compliant imitation of Michelangelo nor the reconciliation of opposing regional styles but, rather, by an interest in hermeneutically productive difference - generating complementary yet divergent approaches to art as a vehicle of reform. This volume presents an in-depth exploration of how Sebastiano's experiments with the sacred image - like Michelangelo's - were formulated in response to the early years of Catholic reform. The years preceding the Council of Trent saw the rise of divisive investigations into the repercussions of an increasingly mediated knowledge of the divine. Libina reveals how these concerns converge in Sebastiano's new language of devotional painting, which embraces an aesthetic of figural stillness, isolation and psychological detachment. At a moment when religious debates and questions about the role of image-based devotion took center stage, Sebastiano's work offered a reflection on what it meant to view and meditate on the body of Christ in the Renaissance altarpiece."--

Series Statement

Arts and the sacred

Uniform Title

Arts and the sacred (Series)

Subject

• Sebastiano, del Piombo, 1485-1547 > Criticism and interpretation
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 > Influence
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
• Sebastiano, del Piombo, 1485-1547
• Christian art
• Counter-Reformation and art
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Sebastiano del Prombo and Michrlangelo: a collaboration in art and reform -- Picturing time and eternity -- Mediation and scripture's interpreters -- Imitatio Christi and the internal image -- The holy face and the face of art -- Conclusion: Mediated truths after the council of Trent

Call Number

JQF 23-39

ISBN

• 9782503594750
• 2503594751

OCLC

1317681027

Author

Libina, Marsha, author. Author

Title

Sebastiano del Piombo and the sacred image : mediating the divine in the age of reform / Marsha Libina.

Publisher

Turnhout : Brepols, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Arts and the sacred

Arts and the sacred (Series)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sebastiano, del Piombo, 1485-1547.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.

Research Call Number

JQF 23-39