Sedimentary Aesthetics

Name: Sedimentary Aesthetics
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Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art

Autor: Christopher J. Nygren

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An unprecedented investigation of painting on stone in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy that...

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Autor

Christopher J. Nygren

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2026

strony

240

EAN

9780300284423

Enbook ID

49219962

Wydawca

Yale University Press

Waga

666

Wymiary

216 x 279

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An unprecedented investigation of painting on stone in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy that considers the ecological and artistic forces that made the genre transformativeIn 1530 the Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (1485–1547) chose an unusual surface for a painting of Christ: a large hewn stone. Treating the stone as a portable canvas, Sebastiano created a work of art that his contemporaries viewed as “almost eternal” and initiated 150 years of a flourishing practice of painting on stone. Blending ecocriticism with art history, Christopher J. Nygren examines the ecological, religious, and cultural contexts in which this idiosyncratic genre emerged. He unearths the hidden labor of stone masons, the international and colonial circuits of exchange, and the ecological philosophy of the time. Sedimentary Aesthetics discusses the development of painting on stone in Italy and the Atlantic world, including changes in how artists approached the stone surface—such as moving away from painting the entire rock to incorporating the visual and surface qualities in the artwork—and the transition from hardier materials like slate and marble to precious ones like lapis lazuli, amethyst, and obsidian, to show how it pushed the traditional boundaries of painting and probed the limits of pictorial representation. With an emphasis on materiality, labor, and commoditization, this volume reveals the forces that made Sebastiano’s choice possible and broadens our understanding of early modern art and culture.

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