Overview

Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini is the first sustained examination of the conspicuous materiality of Bernini's work in sculpture, architecture, and paint. The various essays demonstrate that material Bernini has always been tied (whether theologically, geologically, politically, or in terms of art theory) to his immaterial twin. Here immaterial Bernini and the historiography that sustains him is finally confronted by material Bernini. Central to the volume are Bernini's works in clay, a fragmentary record of a large body of preparatory works by a sculptor who denied any direct relation between sketches of any kind and final works. Read together, the essays call into question why those works in which Bernini's bodily relation to the material of his art is most evident, his clay studies, have been configured as a point of unmediated access to the artist's mind, to his immaterial ideas. This insight reveals a set of values and assumptions that have profoundly shaped Bernini studies from their inception, and opens up new and compelling avenues of inquiry within a field that has long remained remarkably self-enclosed.

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Author:   Carolina Mangone ,  Evonne Anita Levy ,  Dr. Allison Levy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Ashgate Publishing Limited
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781472459244

ISBN 10:   1472459245
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   28 February 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Obstacles in the path to a material Bernini (1900-present), Evonne Levy. Immaterial/Material: The matter of metaphor: truth, sculpture and the word, Maarten Delbeke; Im/material Bernini, Fabio Barry; Bernini scultore pittoresco, Carolina Mangone; Body and clay: material agency from an early modern perspective, Joris van Gastel. Clay Bozzetti: What is a Bozzetto?, Michael Cole; Bernini's Bozzetti and the trope of fire, Steven F. Ostrow; The concept of Bernini's `calculated spontaneity': a critical reassessment, Tara L. Nadeau; Bernini/not Bernini: reflections on the role of technical evidence in the attribution of Bernini's terracottas, C.D. Dickerson and Anthony Sigel; Bibliography; Index.

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...a timely, stimulating, and significant contribution to scholarship on Bernini and to the study of seventeenth-century European sculpture more generally. Estelle Lingo, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

...a timely, stimulating, and significant contribution to scholarship on Bernini and to the study of seventeenth-century European sculpture more generally. Estelle Lingo, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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Evonne Levy is Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto, Canada. Carolina Mangone is Assistant Professor at Princeton University, USA.

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