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The Lies of the Artists: Essays on Italian Art, 1450-1750
Luminous essays on artists of the Italian Renaissance by one of our most inspired writers on the...
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Luminous essays on artists of the Italian Renaissance by one of our most inspired writers on the history and making of art.
In the three centuries from 1450 to 1750 painters, sculptors, and architects emerged from the medieval craft guilds of Italy to claim a new social status as creators, whose gorgeous handiwork, now called "art," expressed lofty inspiration as much as manual skill. In The Lies of the Artists, Ingrid Rowland takes us into the world of these artists, and into their seemingly miraculous ways of transforming transcendent ideas into tangible works of art that challenged and redefined reality, "lies" with the power to reveal a deeper truth. As the great art patron Daniele Barbaro wrote: "bisogna aprire gli occhi," or "you have to open your eyes." And this is precisely what Rowland does in these essays, bringing her knowledge, keen perception, and singular wit to bear on the art and lives of Renaissance masters, including Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini, Raphael, Titian, and El Greco, as well as some overlooked artists of phenomenal talent, such as Antonello da Messina, Andrea del Sarto, and Bertoldo di Giovanni. In dazzling prose, as luminous and versatile as the painterly effects she describes, she shows us the work of these artists in eye-opening, thought-provoking ways, recreating the delight and insight that the discovery of great art evokes.
Author: Ingrid D. Rowland
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 12/17/2024
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780262549097
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2024
About the Author
Ingrid D. Rowland is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of numerous books, including Giordano Bruno and From Pompeii, and was the inaugural winner of the Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing in 2021. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.
In the three centuries from 1450 to 1750 painters, sculptors, and architects emerged from the medieval craft guilds of Italy to claim a new social status as creators, whose gorgeous handiwork, now called "art," expressed lofty inspiration as much as manual skill. In The Lies of the Artists, Ingrid Rowland takes us into the world of these artists, and into their seemingly miraculous ways of transforming transcendent ideas into tangible works of art that challenged and redefined reality, "lies" with the power to reveal a deeper truth. As the great art patron Daniele Barbaro wrote: "bisogna aprire gli occhi," or "you have to open your eyes." And this is precisely what Rowland does in these essays, bringing her knowledge, keen perception, and singular wit to bear on the art and lives of Renaissance masters, including Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini, Raphael, Titian, and El Greco, as well as some overlooked artists of phenomenal talent, such as Antonello da Messina, Andrea del Sarto, and Bertoldo di Giovanni. In dazzling prose, as luminous and versatile as the painterly effects she describes, she shows us the work of these artists in eye-opening, thought-provoking ways, recreating the delight and insight that the discovery of great art evokes.
Author: Ingrid D. Rowland
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 12/17/2024
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780262549097
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2024
About the Author
Ingrid D. Rowland is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of numerous books, including Giordano Bruno and From Pompeii, and was the inaugural winner of the Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing in 2021. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.
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