Ten authors offer novel accounts of the phenomenon of oil painting on stone surfaces in Northern and Southern Europe, from Sebastiano del Piombo's invention at Rome in the sixteenth century to the material experimentation of later painters through the seventeenth century.
Author(s): Baker-Bates Piers
Series: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 388
City: Leiden
Contents
Preface: The Study of Painting on Stone Comes of Age
Judith Mann
Acknowledgments
Piers Baker-Bates
Elena Calvillo
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Piers Baker-Bates and Elena Calvillo
Plates
1-15
Part 1
Sebastiano del Piombo’s Invention and Its Initial Influence
Chapter 1
‘Uno Nuovo Modo di Colorire in Pietra’: Technical Experimentation in the Art of Sebastiano del Piombo*
Piers Baker-Bates
Chapter 2
Painted Stone: Idea and Practice in Italian Renaissance
Ana González Mozo
Chapter 3
‘Un paragone con oro su’: Material Innovation, Invention and Sebastiano del Piombo’s Papal Portraiture*
Elena Calvillo
Part 2
Ars et Natura: The Poetics and Collecting of Paintings on Stone
Chapter 4
The Matter of Similitude: Stone Paintings and the Limits of Representation in Cavaliere d’Arpino’s Perseus and Andromeda and Jacques Stella’s Jacob’s Dream
Christopher J. Nygren
Plates
16-32
Chapter 5
Antonio Tempesta’s Paintings on Stone and the Development of a Genre in 17th-Century Italy
Johanna Beate Lohff
Chapter 6
Glances into Stone: Hans von Aachen’s Paintings on Stone
Susanne Wegmann
Chapter 7
Painting on Stone and Metal: Material Meaning and Innovation in Early Modern Northern European Art
Nadia Baadj
Part 3
Other Materials, Metaphors, and Inventions
Chapter 8
‘Painting the Eternal’: Micromosaic Materiality and Transubstantiation in an Icon of Christ at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome*
Anna Marazuela Kim
Chapter 9
Invention, Ambition and Failure: Niccolò Tornioli (1606-51) and ‘Il Segreto di Colorire il Marmo’
Giulia Martina Weston
Di Siena il dì 13 d’Ottobre 1640.
Chapter 10
Salvator Rosa: A Variety of Surfaces
Helen Langdon
Index
