Art and violence in early Renaissance Florence /

Art and violence in early Renaissance Florence /

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Author / Creator:	Nethersole, Scott, author.
Imprint:	New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Violence in art. Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence. Art, Italian -- Italy -- Florence. Art, Italian. Art, Renaissance. Violence in art. Italy -- Florence.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11609672

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Other authors / contributors:	Yale University Press, publisher.
ISBN:	0300233515 9780300233513
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-309) and index.
Summary:	This study is the first to examine the relationship between art and violence in 15th-century Florence, exposing the underbelly of a period more often celebrated for enlightened and progressive ideas. Renaissance Florentines were constantly subjected to the sight of violence, whether in carefully staged rituals of execution or images of the suffering inflicted on Christ. There was nothing new in this culture of pain, unlike the aesthetic of violence that developed towards the end of the 15th century. It emerged in the work of artists such as Piero di Cosimo, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, and the young Michelangelo. Inspired by the art of antiquity, they painted, engraved, and sculpted images of deadly battles, ultimately normalizing representations of brutal violence. Drawing on work in social and literary history, as well as art history, Scott Nethersole sheds light on the relationship between these Renaissance images, violence, and ideas of artistic invention and authorship.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Visualising violence ; the Pazzi conspiracy
Locating violence
Sacred art ; flagellation, empathy and the problem of idealisation
Secular art ; civility and bestiality
Centaurs and form
Invention and the antique
The violence of representation, or making and destroying
Conclusion ; pleasure.