Changing Status of the Artist

Name: Changing Status of the Artist
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ISBN: 9780300077421

ISBN-10: 0300077424

ISBN-13: 9780300077421

Edition: 1999

Authors: Emma Barker, Nick Webb, Kim W. Woods

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This volume on the changing status of the artist in the early modern period draws on case studies to explore and question the notion that the later 15th and 16th centuries witnessed the emergence of the modern idea of the artist.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 0.77" wide x 1.00" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Preface


Historical introduction: the idea of the artist




Biography and the Image of the Artist


Introduction




'Little desire for glory': the case of Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti




Italian artists in search of virtue, fame, and honour c.1450-c.1650




Benvenuto Cellini and the salt-cellar




Northern Europe in the Sixteenth Century


Introduction




The status of the artist in Northern Europe in the sixteenth century




Commercial sculpture




Genius and melancholy: the art of Durer




Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the northern canon




Changing Interpretations


Introduction




The making of a canonical artist: Vermeer




Subjects, society, style: changing evaluations of Watteau and his art



Conclusion



Recommended reading


Index