Andrea Mantegna: Making Art (History) presents the art of Mantegna as challenging the parameters of the history of art in the demands it makes upon historical interpretation, and explores the artist?s potentially transformative impact on the study of the early Renaissance. Features an array of new methodologies for the study of Mantegna and early Renaissance art Critically addresses the question of iconography and ?literary? art, as well as the politics of the monographic exhibition Includes translations of two seminal accounts of the artist by Roberto Longhi and Daniel Arasse, key texts not previously available in English Explores the Mantegna?s potentially transformative impact on the study of the early Renaissance
Andrea Mantegna: Making Art (History) presents the art of Mantegna as challenging the parameters of the history of art in the demands it makes upon historical interpretation, and explores the artist?s potentially transformative impact on the study of the early Renaissance. Features an array of new methodologies for the study of Mantegna and early Renaissance art Critically addresses the question of iconography and ?literary? art, as well as the politics of the monographic exhibition Includes translations of two seminal accounts of the artist by Roberto Longhi and Daniel Arasse, key texts not previously available in English Explores the Mantegna?s potentially transformative impact on the study of the early Renaissance
Notes on Contributors 6
Chapter 1 In Search of Mantegna’s Poetics: An Introduction 8
Stephen J. Campbell and Jérémie Koering
Chapter 2 Andrea Mantegna: Painting’s Mediality 22
Klaus Krüger
Chapter 3 Signing Mantegna 54
Daniel Arasse
Chapter 4 Mantegna the Grammarian 76
Guillaume Cassegrain
Chapter 5 Changing Forms: Mantegna’s Poietics in the Camera Picta
94
Jérémie Koering
Chapter 6 Mantegna’s Camera Picta: Visuality and Pathos 114
Stephen J. Campbell
Chapter 7 The Griffin’s Gaze and the Mask of Medusa:
Self-Referential Motifs in Andrea Mantegna’s Trial of St James
134
Andreas Hauser
Chapter 8 Artifice and Stability in Late Mantegna 152
Andrea Bolland
Chapter 9 Mantegna’s Fictive Bronze Judith and Dido: Beyond
Exemplarity 176
Francis Fletcher
Chapter 10 A `Pictorial Letter’ to Giuseppe Fiocco 200
Roberto Longhi
Index 225
Stephen J. Campbell is a member of the Department of theHistory of Art at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent book isArt in Italy 1400-1600, co-authored with Michael Cole(2011). Jeremie Koering is a Research Associate at theCentre Andre Chastel. His books include Leonard deVinci (2007) and Le prince en representation(2013).
UK/ROW Art Monthly The Art Quarterly Art History British Art Journal Journal of the History of Collections RA Magazine: Royal Academy of Arts North America American Arts Quarterly Arts Review
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