Practice and Theory in the Italian Renaissance Workshop - Verrocchio and the Epistemology of Making Art

Verrocchio worked in an extraordinarily wide array of media and used unusual practices of making to express ideas.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Verrocchio's ingenuity; 2. Verrocchio's Medici Tomb: art as treatise; 3. Bridging dimensions: Verrocchio's Christ and Saint Thomas as absent presence; 4. The sculptured imagination; 5. Material meditations in Verrocchio's Bargello Crucifix; Conclusion; A note on archival sources; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Christina Neilson is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History at Oberlin College, Ohio. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, among others, she curated and wrote the catalogue for the exhibition 'Parmigianino's Antea: A Beautiful Artifice' at The Frick Collection, New York.

Summary

This book is geared towards an intelligent readership interested in the history and art of Renaissance Italy. The analysis of art practices make it appealing to studio artists and students, while the cultural framework in which those practices are discussed will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students and scholars in art history.

Product details

• Authors: Christina Neilson, Christina (Oberlin College Neilson, NIELSON CHRISTINA
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781107172852
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17285-2
• No. of pages: 362
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; ART / General, sculpture, Italy, History of Art, Renaissance art, Individual artists, art monographs, Renaissance style