Editorial: Amsterdam University Press
Colección: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
Número de páginas: 184 págs. 17.0 x 24.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 14-02-2023
EAN: 9789463727808
ISBN: 978-94-6372-780-8
Precio (sin IVA): 121,69 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 126,56 €
This book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a close analysis of some of the most iconic works of the period. Baroque paintings expose or reference their materiality by insisting on various physical changes wrought through violence. This study approaches violence as the work of materiality, which has the potential to analogously stage pictorial surfaces as corporeal surfaces, where paint becomes flayed flesh, canvas threads ruptured skin, and red paint spilt blood.