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Almost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe gathers together an international group of ten scholars, who offer a novel account of the phenomenon of oil painting on stone surfaces in Northern and Southern Europe. This technique was devised in Rome by Sebastiano del Piombo in the early sixteenth century and was practiced until the late seventeenth century. This phenomenon has attracted little attention previously: the volume therefore makes a significant and timely contribution to the field in the light of recent studies of materiality and the rise of technical Art History. Contributors: Nadia Baadj, Piers Baker-Bates, Elena Calvillo, Ana Gonsalez Mozo, Anna Kim, Helen Langdon, Johanna Beate Lohff, Judith Mann, Christopher Nygren, Suzanne Wegmann, and Giulia Martina Weston.

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Author:   Piers Baker-Bates ,  Elena M. Calvillo
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   10
Weight:   0.679kg
ISBN:  

9789004315051

ISBN 10:   9004315055
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   29 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents Preface  Judith Mann Acknowledgments  Piers Baker-Bates  Elena Calvillo List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Piers Baker-Bates and Elena Calvillo Part 1: Sebastiano del Piombo’s Invention and its Initial Influence 1 Uno Nuovo Modo di Colorire in Pietra: Technical Experimentation in the Art of Sebastiano del Piombo  Piers Baker-Bates 2 Painted Stone: Idea and Practice in Italian Renaissance  Ana González Mozo 3 ‘Un paragone con oro su’: Material Innovation, Invention and Sebastiano del Piombo’s Papal Portraiture  Elena Calvillo Part 2: Ars et Natura: The Poetics and Collecting of Paintings on Stone 4 The Matter of Similitude: Stone Paintings and the Limits of Representation in Cavaliere d’Arpino’s Perseus and Andromedaand Jacques Stella’s Jacob’s Dream  Christopher J. Nygren 5 Antonio Tempesta’s Paintings on Stone and the Development of a Genre in 17th-Century Italy  Johanna Beate Lohff Plates 1-15 6 Glances into Stone: Hans von Aachen’s Paintings on Stone  Susanne Wegmann 7 Painting on Stone and Metal: Material Meaning and Innovation in Early Modern Northern European Art  Nadia Baadj Part 3: Other Materials, Metaphors, and Inventions 8 ‘Painting the Eternal’: Micromosaic Materiality and Transubstantiation in an Icon of Christ at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rom  Anna Marazuela Kim 9 Invention, Ambition and Failure: Niccolò Tornioli (1606-51) and “Il Segreto di Colorire il Marmo”  Giulia Martina Weston 10 Salvator Rosa: A Variety of Surfaces  Helen Langdon Plates 16-32 Index

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Piers Baker-Bates, Ph.D. Cantab (2005), is a Visiting Research Associate at The Open University. He has published monographs and articles on Sebastiano del Piombo and also contributed to the 2017 National Gallery exhibition. Elena Calvillo, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins (2003), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Richmond. She has published several articles on the works of Giulio Clovio and Francisco de Holanda.

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