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Item Number: 120385
Title: Il Marmo spirante : Sculpture and Experience in Seventeenth Century Rome
Author: van Gastel, Joris
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789087281793
Description: Berlin: Akademie, co-publication with Leiden University Press Academic, 2013. 25cm., hardcover, 332pp., 85 b&w illus. English text. Summary: The sculptors of the Roman Baroque, including masters such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Alessandro Algardi, and Giuliano Finelli, managed to achieve an unprecedented vivaciousness in their works. And yet, the apparent life of these sculptures is persistently obscured by their materiality. Soft, undulating flesh, dramatic movements, and fluttering draperies are captured in hard and lifeless marble. Thus, sculpture challenges the beholder, is cause for confusion or frustration. Taking the manner in which the beholder’s engagement with sculpture is played out in contemporary poetry and other sources as a point of departure and also introducing ideas from modern-day psychology, this study explores the various ways contemporary viewers dealt with sculpture’s double character. As a result, a new light is shed on some of the unquestionable masterpieces of European art. (Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus, 12)
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