Item Number: 134365 Title: The Secret Lives of Art Works : Exploring the Boundaries between Art and Life Author: Van Eck, Caroline ; Joris van Gastel ; Elsje van Kessel (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9789087281397 Description: Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2014. 24cm., pbk., 411pp. illus. Contents: 1. Robin Osborne , The Living Presence of the Gods in Ancient Greece. 2. Stijn Bussels , Da' piů scorretti abusata: The Venus de' Medici and its History of Sexual Responses. 3. Lex Hermans , Perpetual Presences: Some Remarks on the Agency of Buildings and Images in Renaissance Italy. 4. Lina Bolzoni , Double-Sided Portraits: Literary Models, Modes of Perception between Mind and Body. 5. Elsje van Kessel , Not Painting but Flesh: Venetian Thinking on the Lives of Paintings in the Early Modern Doge's Palace. 6. Iain Fenlon , Monteverdi's Voice. 7. Minou Schraven , Metallic Presence: Patrons, Portrait Medals and Building Deposits in Renaissance Italy. 8. Christine Göttler , Imitation as Animation: The Multiple Lives of a 'Vesperbildt' attributed to Quinten Massys. 9. Ralph Dekoninck , Visual Representation as Real Presence: Otto van Veen's Naples Vision of Saint Thomas Aquinas. 10. Arnold Witte , Passeri's Vite: The Swan Song of the Counter Reformation Theory of 'Living Art'. 11. Frédéric Cousinié , The Significance of Fluids: The Lactation of Saint Bernard by Nicolas Mignard (1640). 12. Joris van Gastel , Bodies Made Present: Sculptures over Saintly Tombs in Seventeenth-Century Rome. 13. Joanna Woodall , Hieronymus Cock's Effigies: Living Presence in Portrait Prints After the Death of the Original Model. 14. Maarten Delbeke, The Public Lives of Artworks: Likeness as a Figure of Speech in Bernini's Biographies and Emanuele Tesauro's Cannocchiale aristotelico. 15. Alina Payne , Living Stones, Crying Walls: The Dangers of Enlivenment in Architecture from Renaissance putti to Warburg's Nachleben. 16. Jason Gaiger , Depiction, Make-Believe and Participatory Imagining.
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