Knowledge and discernment in the early modern arts
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Knowledge and discernment in the early modern arts
(Visual culture in early modernity)
Routledge, 2017
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In early modern Europe, discernment emerged as a key notion at the intersection of various domains in both learned and artisanal cultures. Often used synonymously with judgment, ingenuity, and taste, discernment defined the ability to perceive and understand the secrets of nature and art, and became explicitly connected with a kind of knowledge available only to experts in the respective fields. With contributions by historians of art and historians of science, and with geographic coverage focusing on the Low Countries and their multiple connections to different parts of the world, this volume reframes recent scholarship on what the editors term 'cultures of knowledge and discernment' in the early modern period. The collection is innovative in its focus on investigating types of knowledge linked to what was then called the 'science' (scientia) of art, to artistic expertise and connoisseurship, and to 'secrets of art and nature.'
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hidden Artifices
Sven Dupre and Christine Goettler
Part I: Sites of Discernment
1 Transforming Nature into Art: Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Tine Luk Meganck
2 Vulcan's Forge: The Sphere of Art in Early Modern Antwerp
Christine Goettler
Part II: Artifices and Imitation
3 Superb Craftsmanship in Antwerp: Baroque Goldsmiths' Work in Competition with the Visual Arts
Lorenz Seelig
4 The Veronica according to Zurbaran: Painting as Figura, and Image as Vestigio
Felipe Pereda
5 'The Various Natures of Middling Colours We May Learne of Painters'. Sir Kenelm Digby Looks at Rubens and Van Dyck
Karin Leonhard
Part III: Secrets and Knowledge
6 Oil Painting as a Workshop Secret: On Calumnies, Legends, and Critical Investigations
Oskar Batschmann
7 Peiresc in the Parisian 'Jewel House'
Peter N. Miller 8 Germanic Antiquity in Rembrandt's Circle
Thijs Weststeijn
Part IV: Mechanical Science and Technique
9 Rembrandt and Painting as a Mechanical Science in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art
Jan Blanc
10 From Mechanism to Technique: Diderot, Chardin, and the Practice of Painting
Paul Taylor
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