The Matter of Violence in Baroque Painting

Bogdan Cornea

doi:10.1017/9789048543830

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Bogdan Cornea

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: April 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9789048543830
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048543830

Subjects:: Art: General Interest, Art
Series:: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

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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.

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Table of Contents
pp 5-6

Acknowledgments
pp 7-8

List of Images
pp 9-12

An Introduction
pp 13-28

1 - Wound: On Caravaggio’s Martyrdom of Saint Ursula
pp 29-52

2 - Touch: On Giovanni Lanfranco’s Saint Peter Healing Saint Agatha
pp 53-72

3 - Skin: On Jusepe de Ribera’s Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew
pp 73-96

4 - Flesh: On Georges de La Tour’s Penitent Saint Jerome
pp 97-118

5 - Blood: On Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes
pp 119-140

6 - Death: On Francisco de Zurbarán’s The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion
pp 141-160

Conclusion
pp 161-164

General Bibliography
pp 165-182

Index
pp 183-184

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