Full Description
During the early modern period sculptors experimented with forms, typologies, and materials of their art in unprecedented ways. Sculpture was at the center of theoretical debates concerning the relative merits of the different arts, the differences between ancient and modern art, and the relationship between art and nature. Rome was a major center for these theoretical debates, as well as a locus for patronage and collecting. Sculptors from all over Europe came to Rome to study the remains of the antique past and to practice their art. Critical Perspectives on Roman Baroque Sculpture stakes out a new frontier of research on seventeenth-century sculpture in Rome—a frontier that looks well beyond attributional and technical questions, instead focusing on questions of historical context and criticism including the interaction of sculptural theory and practice; the creative roles of sculptors and their patrons; the relationship of sculpture to its antique models and to contemporary painting; and problems of contextual meaning and reception.
Aside from the editors, the contributors are Michael Cole, Julia K. Dabbs, Maarten Delbeke, Damian Dombrowski, Maria Cristina Fortunati, Estelle Lingo, Peter M. Lukehart, Aline Magnien, and Christina Strunck.
Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Steven F. Ostrow and Anthony Colantuono
1 The "Accademia dei Scultori" in Late Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Rome
Peter M. Lukehart
2 Francesco Mochi: Stone and Scale
Michael Cole
3 Impossible Apostles: Francesco Mochi's Saint Peter and Saint Paul for S. Paolo fuori le mura
Estelle Lingo
4 The Poetry of Atomism: Duquesnoy, Poussin, and the Song of Silenus
Anthony Colantuono
5 Orfeo Boselli's Osservationi della scoltura antica: A Seventeenth-Century Treatise on Sculpture, Its Purpose, and Its Descent into Obscurity
Maria Cristina Fortunati
6 The Sculptural Altarpiece and Its Vicissitudes in the Roman Church Interior: Renaissance Through Baroque
Damian Dombrowski
7 "For we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men": Alessandro Algardi's Beheading of Saint Paul and the Theatricality of Martyrdom
Maarten Delbeke
8 "Appearing to be what they are not": Bernini's Reliefs in Theory and Practice
Steven F. Ostrow
9 The Poisoned Present: A New Reading of Gianlorenzo Bernini's Rape of Proserpina
Christina Strunck
10 "Humoring" the Antique: Michel Anguier and the Physiological Interpretation of Ancient Greek Sculpture
Julia K. Dabbs
11 On Causes and Effects: Imitating Nature in Seventeenth-Century Sculpture Between Rome and Paris
Aline Magnien
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index
