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Material Bernini

Material Bernini

Edited ByEvonne Levy, Carolina Mangone
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 14 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315594286
Pages 272 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315594286
SubjectsArts, Built Environment, Humanities
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Levy, E. (Ed.), Mangone, C. (Ed.). (2016). Material Bernini. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315594286

Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini is the first sustained examination of the conspicuous materiality of Bernini’s work in sculpture, architecture, and paint. The various essays demonstrate that material Bernini has always been tied (whether theologically, geologically, politically, or in terms of art theory) to his immaterial twin. Here immaterial Bernini and the historiography that sustains him is finally confronted by material Bernini. Central to the volume are Bernini’s works in clay, a fragmentary record of a large body of preparatory works by a sculptor who denied any direct relation between sketches of any kind and final works. Read together, the essays call into question why those works in which Bernini’s bodily relation to the material of his art is most evident, his clay studies, have been configured as a point of unmediated access to the artist’s mind, to his immaterial ideas. This insight reveals a set of values and assumptions that have profoundly shaped Bernini studies from their inception, and opens up new and compelling avenues of inquiry within a field that has long remained remarkably self-enclosed.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |20 pages
Obstacles in the Path to a Material Bernini (1900–Present)
ByEvonne Levy
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part |2 pages
PART I: IMMATERIAL/MATERIAL
chapter |16 pages
The Matter of Metaphor: Truth, Sculpture, and the Word
ByMaarten Delbeke
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chapter |30 pages
Im/material Bernini
ByFabio Barry
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chapter |36 pages
Bernini scultore pittoresco
ByCarolina Mangone
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chapter |16 pages
Body and Clay: Material Agency from an Early Modern Perspective
ByJoris van Gastel
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part |2 pages
PART II: CLAY BOZZETTI
chapter |24 pages
What Is a Bozzetto?
ByMichael Cole
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chapter |22 pages
Bernini’s Bozzetti and the Trope of Fire
BySteven F. Ostrow
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chapter |18 pages
The Concept of Bernini’s “Calculated Spontaneity”: A Critical Reassessment
ByTara L. Nadeau
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chapter |32 pages
Bernini/Not Bernini: Reflections on the Role of Technical Evidence in the Attribution of Bernini’s Terracottas
ByC.D. Dickerson III and Anthony Sigel
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