Research Catalog

Title

Redefining eclecticism in early modern Bolognese painting : ideology, practice, and criticism / Daniel M. Unger.

Author

Unger, Daniel M.,

Publication

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

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Details

Description

231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; v.8

Uniform Title

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; v.8.

Subjects

• Painting
• Painting, Modern
• History
• Painting, Italian > History
• Italy > Bologna
• Malerei
• Bologna
• Painting > Italy > Bologna > History
• Stil
• Eklektizismus

Genre/Form

History.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. Defining Eclecticism -- 2. Ideology -- 3. Practice -- 4. Criticisim -- Conclusion: The Eclectic Approach -- Epilogue: Eclecticism in the Roman Chapel.

ISBN

• 9462986010
• 9789462986015

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries