Overview
This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the Dialogues on Painting, published by the Florentine-born Spanish painter and art theorist Vicente Carducho (15681638) in 1633. This was the first treatise in Spanish on the art of painting, written as part of a campaign led by Carducho in collaboration with other prominent painters working in Madrid, to raise the status of the artist from artisan to liberal artist. The treatise provides an overview of the melding of Italian Renaissance art theory and Madrilenian practice in the baroque era. It also offers first-hand insight into collecting in Madrid during this crucial period in the rapid expansion of the capital city. The present collection of essays by art historians and hispanists from the UK, Spain, Germany and the US examines each of the dialogues in detail, furnishing an account of Carducho's campaign to establish a painting academy and to professionalise the office of the painter; detailing the publication history of the treatise and the interrelationship between painting and poetry; and it cites Carducho's own painting in relation to the Italian and Spanish traditions within which he operated.
Full Product Details
Author: Jean Andrews ,
Jeremy Roe ,
Oliver Noble Wood
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9781783168590
ISBN 10: 1783168595
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 15 July 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This volume offers a reappraisal of the art and thought of Vicente Carducho, for too long overshadowed in art history by Diego Velazquez, his younger artistic rival at the Spanish court. A wide-ranging series of essays consider this treatise and its illustrations in terms of the international literary and artistic cultural context of its time, providing almost the only in-depth analysis of the achievements of the artist in the English language. --Peter Cherry, Trinity College Dublin
This volume offers a reappraisal of the art and thought of Vicente Carducho, for too long overshadowed in art history by Diego Velazquez, his younger artistic rival at the Spanish court. A wide-ranging series of essays consider this treatise and its illustrations in terms of the international literary and artistic cultural context of its time, providing almost the only in-depth analysis of the achievements of the artist in the English language. --Peter Cherry, Trinity College Dublin
Author Information
Art historians with an interest in Spanish seventeenth century art, art galleries, university undergraduates and postgraduates.
