Paolo de Matteis: Neapolitan Painting and Cultural History in Baroque Europe

ISBN-13: 9781138310223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 502 str.

Livio Pestilli

Opis

A long overdue re-assessment of the Neapolitan painter Paolo de Matteis, this volume examines the artist’s most significant works and shows how posterity’s impression of him has been conditioned by a biased biographical and literary tradition.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Part I Framing the Artist: A fabricated life; Enter the critic. Part II Paintings: ’Napoli nobilissima’; Circa 1700; Naples again; A Herculean feat; The celebratory self; Supporting authorship; The skill of a ’Valentuomo’; Portraying Carthusian values; Campanian connections; The remains of the day. Part III Drawings: ’And truly Paolo was a great draftsman...’; Epilogue; Appendices; Index.

O autorze

Livio Pestilli is Director and Professor of Art History at Trinity College-Rome Campus, Italy.