The Matter of Violence in Baroque Painting
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 December 2025
- ISBN 9781041188476
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages184 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in 17th-century paintings through a close analysis of some of the most iconic works of the period.
MoreLong description:
Baroque depictions of violence are often dismissed as ‘over the top’ and ‘excessive’. Their material richness and exciting visual complexity, together with the visceral engagement they demand from beholders, are usually explained in literature as reflecting the presumed violence of early modern society. 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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgments, List of Images, An Introduction, Chapter One. Wound: On Caravaggio's Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, Chapter Two. Touch: On Giovanni Lanfranco's Saint Peter Healing Saint Agatha, Chapter Three. Skin: On Jusepe de Ribera's Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, Chapter Four. Flesh: On Georges de la Tour's Penitent Saint Jerome, Chapter Five. Blood: On Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes, Chapter Six. Death: On Francisco de Zurbarán's Martyrdom of Saint Serapion, Conclusion, General Bibliography, Index.
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