Nicolas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting - Brossura

Cropper, Elizabeth; Dempsey, Charles

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ISBN 10: 0691050678 ISBN 13: 9780691050676

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

By investigating the important cultural figures who were close to the painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey allow the reader to enter not only the Rome where he lived but also the Rome of antiquity, which he admired and tried to reconstruct. The authors argue that Poussin's works were structured by his friendships, as well as by his study of ancient history and early Christian archaeology, his exploration of the poetry and mystery of ancient places, and his conception of his paintings as gifts rather than commercial objects. By looking into this rich background, they also show how Poussin introduced into his theory and practice of painting a new concept of the inherent expressiveness of form that was quite different from the then prevailing conventions for depicting the passions and affections.

The first two chapters treat Vincenzo Giustiniani, the most sophisticated patron and art collector of his day, whose purpose and rationale for collecting ancient sculpture deeply influenced Poussin and the Flemish sculptor Francois Duquesnoy. Among other topics, the succeeding sections take up Poussin's deep readings of Montaigne and his friendships with the poet Giovanni Battista Marino, with artists such as Pietro Testa and Matteo Zaccolini, and with patrons and true friends, among them Cassiano dal Pozzo and Paul Fréart de Chantelou, for whom Poussin painted a special self-portrait, which the artist said stood for "The Love of Painting and Friendship."

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Winner of the 1998 Charles Rufus Morey Award, College Art Association
Winner of the 1997 Mitchell Prize, The Burlington Magazine

"Brilliant ... Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey, writing together as one, attempt to break the impasse between connoisseurship and iconographic analysis ... by moving the debate to broader themes of style and subject, and bringing them together into expressive interaction with each other."--Hugh Brigstocke, The Art Newspaper

"Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey have the great virtue of being unafraid to tackle the radical questions raised by Poussin's painting; in a field where heat is typically generated by wranglings over chronology and attribution, their Nicolas Poussin is a book of strong interpretations."--Norman Bryson, The Times Literary Supplement

"Excellent ... finely and amply produced.... Exploring the facets of Poussin's art in context, the authors reveal how genius translated complex circumstance into unequalled opportunity."--British Journal of Aesthetics

Contenuti:

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction	3
I	Vincenzo Giustiniani
Ch. 1	The Greek Style, the Exquisite Taste, and the Prehistory of Neoclassicism	23
Ch. 2	Vincenzo Giustiniani's Galleria: A Taste for Style and an Inclination to Pleasure	64
II	Cassiano Dal Pozzo
Ch. 3	Poussin's Sacrament of Confirmation, the Scholarship of Roma sotterranea, and Cassiano dal Pozzo's Museo Cartaceo	109
Ch. 4	On the Experience of Light and Color: Poussin, Padre Zaccolini, Cassiano dal Pozzo, and the Legacy of Leonardo	145
III	Montaigne
Ch. 5	Painting and Possession: Poussin's Self-Portrait for Chantelou and the Essais of Montaigne	177
Ch. 6	Mavors armipotens: The Poetics of Self-Representation in Poussin's Mars and Venus	216
IV	The Poets
Ch. 7	Marino's La Strage degli Innocenti, Poussin, Rubens, and Guido Reni	253
Ch. 8	Death in Arcadia	279
	Notes	313
	Bibliography	347
	Index	363

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0691050678
• ISBN 13: 9780691050676
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 412