The Lives of Paintings : : Presence, Agency and Likeness in Venetian Art of the Sixteenth Century / / Elsje van Kessel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Kessel, Elsje van,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus , 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; A Modern Miracle: Christ Carrying the Cross in the Scuola di San Rocco --; A Portrait Defaced: The Donor Portrait of Broccardo Malchiostro in the Duomo of Treviso --; A Martyr of Painting: Irene di Spilimbergo, Titian, and Venetian Portraiture between Life and Death --; Politics, Portraits, and Love: Francesco Bembo, Bianca Capello and ‘the Most Beautiful Contemporary Painting in Venice’ --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; List of Illustrations --; Colour Plates --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110495775; 9783110762495; 9783110719543; 9783110547726; 9783110540550; 9783110625264
• ISSN: 2192-0079
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110495775
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elsje van Kessel.

"Lebende Bilder" im Venedig des 16. Jahrhunderts In sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick, made money, and became involved in love affairs. Presenting a range of case studies, Elsje van Kessel offers a detailed examination of the agency paintings and other two-dimensional images could exert. This lifelike agency is not only connected to the seemingly naturalistic style of these images – works by Titian, Giorgione and their contemporaries, illustrated here in over 150 plates. It is also brought in relation to their social-historical contexts, meticulously unravelled through archival research. Grounded in the theoretical literature on the agency of material things, The Lives of Paintings contributes to Venetian studies as well as engaging with wider debates on the attribution of life and presence to images and objects.