Renaissance Lives #: Filippino Lippi

An Abundance of Invention

Renaissance Lives #: Filippino Lippi
Jonathan K Nelson
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12 Sep 2022 UK
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9781789146011
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The first monograph in a generation, and the first study in English in over eighty years, this book presents a new understanding of the Renaissance master-artist Filippino Lippi. Celebrated as ' ingenious' by Vasariin 1550, Filippino was highly praised and influential, then fell out of favour and was forgotten for centuries. He was rediscovered by the poet Swinburne, who in 1868 celebrated the painter' s ' inventive enjoyment and indefatigable fancy' . In a similar spirit, this volume explores Filippino' s creativity in solving artistic problems. If a Roman cardinal requested a classically inspired work, or a Florentine humanist wanted to dazzle observers with his antiquarian interests, Filippino had the sensitivity to understand these diverse needs and express them with highly original solutions.

Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe
Botticelli: Artist and Designer
Donatello and the Dawn of Renaissance Art
Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Spirit of a Scholar
Filippino Lippi: An Abundance of Invention
Giorgione's Ambiguity
Hans Holbein: Artist in a Changing World
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy
John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion
Leon Battista Alberti: The Chameleon's Eye
Leonardo da Vinci: Self Art and Nature
Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer
Piero della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature
Raphael and the Antique
Rembrandt's Holland
Rubens's Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius
Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance
Titian's Touch: Art, Magic and Philosophy
Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens

"Nelson' s book combines a rigorous historical approach with an admirable openness to ideas that make it the most sophisticated and well-rounded monograph on the artist yet written. By thoughtfully defining the special qualities of this inventive painter, Nelson offers his readers new insights into how Filippino' s work was understood by his contemporaries and how his inventiveness mattered in his own time. "--Christian K. Kleinbub, professor of Italian Renaissance art, Ohio State University "Abundant invention and a special intelligence define Filippino Lippi' s works as presented by Nelson, who matches those qualities in his analysis of the artist' s career. Filippino emerges here in all of his creative versatility. Nelson demonstrates the painter' s stylistic sensitivity, showing how he met the demands of different situations with striking and innovative solutions. Highly praised in his time, Filippino provoked new ways of looking. Nelson, in turn, provides a fascinating new way of seeing Lippi and his works. "--Patricia Rubin, emerita professor of art history, New York University
Jonathan Nelson is Teaching Professor of Art History at Syracuse University, Florence. He is the leading specialist on Filippino Lippi, and his many books include Bad Reception: Negative Reactions to Italian Renaissance Art (2021).
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ISBN-13: 9781789146011
Published: 12 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 248

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