Full Description
Andrea Mantegnachallenging the parameters of the history of art in the demands it makes upon historical interpretation, and explores the artist s potentially transformative impact on the study of the early Renaissance. * Features an array of new methodologies for the study of Mantegna and early Renaissance art * Critically addresses the question of iconography and literary art, as well as the politics of the monographic exhibition * Includes translations of two seminal accounts of the artist by Roberto Longhi and Daniel Arasse, key texts not previously available in English * Explores the Mantegna s potentially transformative impact on the study of the early Renaissance
Contents
Notes on Contributors 6 Chapter 1 In Search of Mantegna s Poetics: An Introduction 8 Stephen J. Campbell and Jeremie Koering Chapter 2 Andrea Mantegna: Painting s Mediality 22 Klaus Kruger Chapter 3 Signing Mantegna 54 Daniel Arasse Chapter 4 Mantegna the Grammarian 76 Guillaume Cassegrain Chapter 5 Changing Forms: Mantegna s Poietics in the Camera Picta 94 Jeremie Koering Chapter 6 Mantegna s Camera Picta: Visuality and Pathos 114 Stephen J. Campbell Chapter 7 The Griffin s Gaze and the Mask of Medusa: Self-Referential Motifs in Andrea Mantegna s Trial of St James 134 Andreas Hauser Chapter 8 Artifice and Stability in Late Mantegna 152 Andrea Bolland Chapter 9 Mantegna s Fictive Bronze Judith and Dido: Beyond Exemplarity 176 Francis Fletcher Chapter 10 A Pictorial Letter to Giuseppe Fiocco 200 Roberto Longhi Index 225
