Quasi vivo: Lebendigkeit in der italienischen Kunst der Frühen Neuzeit

Frank Fehrenbach

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Quasi vivo

Lebendigkeit in der italienischen Kunst der Frühen Neuzeit

Frank Fehrenbach

Volume 5 in the series Naturbilder / Images of Nature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110622164

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About this book

"Liveliness" is the dominant topos in the art and discourse on art of the early modern era. It is characterized by a paradox, since the works only seem to live. But what is also reflected in the fascination with almost living works at the same time is the impossibility of drawing rigid lines of demarcation between the living and the dead. Here, art explores what also occupied natural philosophy at the time in an experimental way.

The book examines the transitions between living and dead in case studies, for instance, based on early tombs, anatomical renderings, and sculptural monochromy as well as on the history of coloring, Vasari’s teleology, Michelangelo's non-finito, and Titian's portraits. What come into play are eroticism, monetary theory, the luster of eyes, and still-lifes, and also visual poetry, princely triumphal processions, and light and sculpture in the Baroque.

Author / Editor information

Frank Fehrenbach, Universität Hamburg.

Reviews

„In all diesen Studien verdeutlicht Fehrenbach, dass es sich bei Lebendigkeit um ein zentrales Anliegen der Renaissance handelt und nicht etwa um einen reinen Topos des Lobs oder Metaphorik. Damit leistet er einen wichtigen Beitrag zur bildwissenschaftlichen Beschäftigung mit der Macht der Bilder. Doch im Gegensatz etwa zur Horst Bredekamps ‚Theorie des Bildakts‘ verzichtet Fehrenbach weitgehend auf anthropologische Ansätze. Ihn beschäftigen weniger die realen Auswirkungen einer tatsächlich als handelnd empfundenen Kunst als die ästhetische Reflexion im ‚Zeitalter der Kunst" und die in der aristotelischen Mischform enthaltene Latenz. Er widmet sich dem ‚quasi‘ im ‚quasi vivo‘.“ (Benjamin Paul in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2021/2)

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„Quasi Vivo constitutes a powerful re-reading of Italian Renaissance art, in which the author focuses on how images, these assemblages of matter, are constantly perceived in the process of becoming alive.“ (Marco Pomini in: Kunstchronik, 2024/1, https://doi.org/10.11588/kc.2024.1)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Inhaltsverzeichnis Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Vorwort Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Il dipinto pone più dubbio… Einleitung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
… qual cosa certo è difficilissima Grabmäler des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
In vivo marmo morte. Zu Michelangelos Medici-Grabmälern von San Lorenzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Homo nudus vivus. Zur Anothomia (1345) des Guido da Vigevano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Il corpo […] al continuo muore e al continuo rinasce. Leonardo da Vincis Anatomie des lebendigen Körpers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
… et erubuit. Oberflächen der Skulptur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Viva ne la unione de i colori. Das Leben der Farben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
E quanti ce ne sono stati che hanno dato vita alle loro figure coi colori, ne’ morti […]? Vasaris Transgressionen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Cresce per mancar. Michelangelos Ungeborene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Rationes seminales. Die Strada-Bildnisse von Tizian und Tintoretto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
La leggiadra e lasciva imitazione del vivo. Erotische Bilder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Ponto de luz ou realço. Glanz und Blick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
In qualche modo vive. Blumenmalerei Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376
Tra vivo e spento. Marinos Bildgedichte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
Colpi vitali. Berninis Licht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
Paratus ad agendum. Der Fürst als Bild und Betrachter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
Epilog: Bravi i morti! Emphasen des Lebens in Goethes Italienischer Reise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
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Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Kunsthistoriker, Historiker, Kulturwissenschaftler
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 588
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 170
- Coloured Illustrations: 48

eBook

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110622164

Hardcover

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110374438