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Mochi's Edge and Bernini's Baroque
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2017 Hardcover with dusjacket, VI+328 p., 6 b/w ill. + 244 colour ill., 225 x 300 mm, 2017 Languages: English, Italian. ISBN 9781909400801.
This book takes the extraordinary art of the Tuscan sculptor Francesco Mochi (1580-1654) as the entry point for an inquiry into the historical and cultural forces reshaping sculpture at the beginning of the seventeenth century. This book takes the extraordinary art of the Tuscan sculptor Francesco Mochi (1580-1654) as the entry point for an inquiry into the historical and cultural forces reshaping sculpture at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Mochi has long been understood as an early innovator of the ?baroque? style whose career was eclipsed by the rise of his younger contemporary Gianlorenzo Bernini. But for his sole seventeenth-century biographer, what distinguished Mochi?s sculpture was his determination to adhere to ?the Florentine manner.? This study argues that the post-Tridentine religious climate and the demands of consolidating absolutist regimes posed specific challenges for sculpture, particularly as the medium had been assertively developed during the first half of the sixteenth century by Florentine sculptors, most famously Michelangelo. As analyzed here, Mochi?s highly distinctive sculptural style stemmed directly from his attempt to carry forward a Florentine and Michelangelesque tradition of sculpture?above all its commitments to the representation of the body, the materiality of sculpture, and the agency of the artist?and to reconcile that tradition with imperatives of his own day. Mochi?s ambitious undertaking produced an extreme tension in his art that resulted in some of the century?s most breathtaking sculptures, though ultimately fracturing his career. The book offers wholly new interpretations of Mochi?s monumental works and a new, historically engaged account of the origins of ?baroque? sculpture and the rise to dominance of Bernini?s mature sculptural style. The volume is enriched by specially commissioned color photographs of Mochi?s sculptures. Estelle Lingo is Associate Professor of Early Modern European Art and Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, and author of Francois Duquesnoy and the Greek Ideal (Yale University Press, 2007). She is the 2016-18 Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Federico Barocci: Allure and Devotion in Late Renaissance Painting
Lingo, Stuart: Federico Barocci: Allure and Devotion in Late Renaissance Painting. London: Yale University Press, 2008. 384pp. with 100 colour and 100 monochrome illustrations. Hardback. 29x24.8cms. Successfully combining profound devotion with contemporary tastes for sensuous allure Barocci was one of the most admired painters of religious works in the 16th century. In this study the historical significance and achievements of Barocci and his compelling altarpieces are shown within the context of this difficult period in ecclesiastical art.
Successfully combining profound devotion with contemporary tastes for sensuous allure Barocci was one of the most admired painters of religious works in the 16th century. In this study the historical significance and achievements of Barocci and his compelling altarpieces are shown within the context of this difficult period in ecclesiastical art. Text in English
