On Art and Painting: Vicente Carducho and Baroque Spain (University of Wales Press - Studies in Visual Culture)

Though he was one of the most commercially successful Spanish painters of the seventeenth century, Vincente Carducho emphasized piety and devotion to a higher power in his work and his writing. On Art and Painting features in-depth analyses by art historians and scholars of Hispanic studies on Carducho’s 1633 treatise, Dialogues on Painting . In the Dialogues , arranged as conversations between a master painter and his apprentice, Carducho outlines and systematizes the learning and techniques of Spanish painting. This book brings together international experts in the only volume on the work of Vicente Carducho in English. This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the Dialogues on Painting, published by the Florentine-born Spanish painter and art theorist Vicente Carducho (1568-1638) in 1633. This was the first treatise in Spanish on the art of painting, written as part of a campaign led by Carducho in collaboration with other prominent painters working in Madrid, to raise the status of the artist from artisan to liberal artist. The treatise provides an overview of the melding of Italian Renaissance art theory and Madrilenian practice in the baroque era. It also offers first-hand insight into collecting in Madrid during this crucial period in the rapid expansion of the capital city. The present collection of essays by art historians and hispanists from the UK, Spain, Germany and the US examines each of the dialogues in detail, furnishing an account of Carducho's campaign to establish a painting academy and to professionalise the office of the painter ; detailing the publication history of the treatise and the interrelationship between painting and poetry ; and it cites Carducho's own painting in relation to the Italian and Spanish traditions within which he operated Front Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Series editors’ preface Acknowledgements Figures Abbreviations Contributors Preface 1 Carducho and the Spanish Literary Baroque 2 Painting and Poetry in Diálogos de la Pintura 3 Carducho the conceptista 4 Observations on Readershipand Circulation 5 Art Aficionados at Court 6 Carducho and Sacred Oratory 7 Carducho and Ideas about Religious Art 8 Carducho’s Late Holy Familiesand Decorum 9 Zuccari and the Carduchos 10 Italian Training at the Spanish Court 11 Carducho and the Eloquence of Drawing 12 The Paragone between Paintingand Sculpture 13 Carducho and pintura de borrones Plates from Diálogos de la Pintura Appendices Bibliography Index Back Cover A collection of essays by international experts on Vicente Carducho's treatise the Dialogues on Painting (1633), which dealt with the depiction of religious and profane subjects, the creation of collections and the status of the painter in baroque Spain.