Research Catalog

Title

The Craft of art : originality and industry in the Italian Renaissance and baroque workshop / Andrew Ladis and Carolyn Wood, editors ; William U. Eiland, general editor.

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Ladis, Andrew, 1949-2007.
• Wood, Carolyn H.
• Eiland, William U.
• Museo Horne (Florence, Italy)
• Dixon Gallery and Gardens.
• Georgia Museum of Art.

Description

vii, 243 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• In this collection of nine essays some of the preeminent art historians in the United States consider the relationship between art and craft, between the creative idea and its realization, in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. The essays, all previously unpublished, are devoted to the pictorial arts and are accompanied by nearly 150 illustrations.
• Examining works by such artists as Michelangelo, Titian, Volterrano, Giovanni di Paolo, and Annibale Carracci (along with aspects of the artists' creative processes, work habits, and aesthetic convictions), the essayists explore the ways in which art was conceived and produced at a time when collaboration with pupils, assistants, or independent masters was an accepted part of the artistic process.
• The consensus of the contributors amounts to a revision, or at least a qualification, of Bernard Berenson's interpretation of the emergent Renaissance ideal of individual "genius" as a measure of original artistic achievement. This new perspective accords greater influence to the collaborative, appropriative conventions and practices of the craft workshop, which persisted into and beyond the Renaissance from its origins in the Middle Ages.
• Consequently, say the contributors, we must acknowledge the sometimes rather ordinary beginnings of some of the world's great works of art. Such an admission will open new avenues of study and enhance our understanding of the complex connections between invention and execution.

Subjects

• Art, Baroque > Italy > Congresses
• Art, Renaissance > Italy > Congresses
• Art, Italian > Congresses
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Group work in art > Italy > Congresses

Note

• Papers from a symposium held on the occasion of an exhibition of works from the Horne Museum, Florence, Italy; the exhibition was presented at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis and the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Andrew Ladis and Carolyn Wood -- The Artist's Hand / Paul Barolsky -- The Craftsman's Genius: Painters, Patrons, and Drawings in Trecento Siena / Hayden B. J. Maginnis -- Sources and Resources: The Lost Sketchbooks of Giovanni di Paolo / Andrew Ladis -- Titian and the Idea of Originality in the Renaissance / Bruce Cole -- Instruction and Originality in Michelangelo's Drawings / W. E. Wallace -- The Earliest Collaborations of Pontormo and Bronzino: The Certosa, the Capponi Chapel, and the Dead Christ with the Virgin and Magdalen / Elizabeth Pilliod -- Drawings as Means to an End: Preparatory Methods in the Carracci School / Diane De Grazia -- De Rossi and Falda: A Successful Collaboration in the Print Industry of Seventeenth-Century Rome / Francesca Consagra -- Volterrano and the Role of Imitatio in the Seventeenth-Century Practice of Art in Florence / Malcolm Campbell.

ISBN

0820316482 (alk. paper)

LCCN

93040992

OCLC

• 29387743
• ocm29387743
• SCSB-3277610

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries