- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press (17 Sep 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0691043957
- ISBN-13: 978-0691043951
- Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 19.9 x 2.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,185,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In this provocative and lucid study, Bernard Aikema argues that Bassano's painting [in 16th century Italy] is more intelligent and topical than we might suppose... Aikema also examines the links between Bassano and Northern European culture, and he finds surprising thematic similarities with Netherlandish genre scenes. Times Literary Supplement
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Widely acknowledged as one of the first landscape and genre painters in Italy, Jacopo Bassano (ca. 1510-1592) was highly regarded during his career for his brilliant treatment of light and colour and for his innovative rural themes. Although he can be viewed as a pioneer pointing the way to the Dutch landscape painting of the seventeenth century, this Venetian painter is less known today than many of his con-temporaries. In this book, Bernard Aikema uses a contextual approach to perform a much-needed iconological analysis of Bassano's painterly production. By tracing a remarkably consistent use of imagery grounded in a spiritual perspective, Aikema seeks to change our conception not only of the importance of Bassano's oeuvre, but also of the original function and development of genre and landscape painting in Northern Italy as compared to that in The Netherlands. Aikema argues that Bassano developed an imagery that expressed itself in an antithetical mode of representation - in which a good Christian way of life is contrasted with a materialistic concept of human conduct. The author challenges the common belief that Bassano switched to rural settings and genre painting late in life
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