Lives of Paintings
Subtitle: Presence, Agency and Likeness in Venetian Art of the Sixteenth Century
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9783110485899
Subjects: Art, italian
Description: "As this book shows, paintings in 16th-century Venice were often treated as living beings. On the basis of case studies, its author offers a detailed examination of the agency paintings and other two-dimensional images could exert. Grounded in the theoretical literature on the agency of material things, the book contributes to Venetian studies as well as engaging with wider debates on the attribution of life and presence to images and objects"--