Il marmo spirante : sculpture and experience in seventeenth-century Rome
Gastel, J.J. van
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Il Marmo Spirante
Sculpture & Experience in Seventeenth-Century Rome
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden
op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof.mr. P.F. van der Heijden, volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties
te verdedigen op donderdag 8 september 2011 klokke 16.15 uur
door
Jan Joris van Gastel Geboren te Huizen
op 12 mei 1977
Promotiecommissie:
Prof. dr. Caroline van Eck (promotor) Dr. ir. Maarten Delbeke (co-promotor)
Prof. dr. Harald Hendrix (Universiteit Utrecht) Prof. dr. Joseph Imorde (Universität Siegen)
Prof. dr. Frits Scholten (Rijksmuseum / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Dr. Huib Looren de Jong (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Contents
Preface
iiiIntroduction
1The ‘Prima Apprensione’. Approach. How this Book is Set Up. Existing Approaches. Psychology.
One Poetry
19Sculpted Life. Between Marble and Life. Effects of Light, Water, Air. Effects on the Spectator / Poet.
The senses. Implications. Dispersal.
Two Likeness
To Create a Likeness. Caricature. Lifelikeness.
Physiognomy.
51
Three Pluralità
Azzioni to Affetti. Fantasia or Capturing the Moving Model. Creating the Plural Bust. Looking at Bernini with Guidiccioni. The Beholder.
77
Four Movement
Moment. Dynamics and Momentum. Shifts.
Movement Styles and Caricatures. The Portrait Bust. The Beholder.
101
Five Flesh
Titian as a Sculptor of Flesh. Of Copying Statues.
Nursing the Putto. Ambiguities of the Flesh. Touch and Flesh. The Thematization of Touch.
129
Six Franchezza
Franchezza and Connoisseurship. The Sculptor as Connoisseur. The Dynamics of Observation. The Prominence of the Fold.
161
Seven Metamorphosis
‘Per una statua di Dafne’. The Poet and the Marble.
The Active Spectator. The Petrified Spectator. Life to Stone.
185
Conclusion
Poetry. Sculpture. Psychology. Seventeenth-Century Rome.
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