Synagonism: Theory and Practice in Early Modern Art: Theory and Practice in Early Modern Art

The present volume explores for the first time the concept of synagonism (from "σύν", "together" and "ἀγών", "struggle") for an analysis of the productive exchanges between early modern painting, sculpture, architecture, and other art forms in theory and practice. In doing so, it builds on current insights regarding the so-called paragone debate, seeing this, however, as only one, too narrow perspective on early modern artistic production. Synagonism, rather, implies a breaking up of the schematic connections between art forms and individual senses, drawing attention to the multimediality and intersensoriality of art, as well as the relationship between image and body. Contents Figures Notes on Contributors Synagonism: An Introduction 1 2 3 4 Acknowledgements Bibliography Part 1: Theory and Practice 1 El Greco’s Synagonism 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bibliography 2 Touch and Trace: Clay in the Hands of the Baroque Sculptor 1 Touching Colours 2 The Perfect Clay 3 Touching Clay 4 Touching and Being Touched Bibiography 3 Raphael’s Mond Crucifixion and the Lesson of Santa Maria Novella 1 The Structure of Light-Dark Contrasts 2 The Unavoidable Iconic Situation 3 The Unione del Colore as the Synagonism of Color and Light 4 Classical Clarity of Contour versus Defective Chiaroscuro 5 The Lesson of Santa Maria Novella 6 Castiglione’s Synagonistic Aesthetic 6 Castiglione’s Synagonistic Aesthetic 7 The Iconosphere Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Literature 4 Collaborations 1 Painters as Guild-Affiliated Artisans 2 Separation of Crafts 3 Cooperation Regarding the Enforcement of the Division of Trades 4 Cooperation in Production 5 Specialists 6 Synagonism Bibliography Primary Sources Stadtarchiv Augsburg (Augsburg City Archive) Other Locations Published Sources, Editions, and Literature Appuhn 1986 Baxandall 1983 Beyer, Savoy & Tegethoff 2005 Bierdimpfl 1884 Bischoff 2005 Bobinger 1966 Brenner Künstler 2021 Brenner Nachahmung 2021 Brenner 2018 Brenner 2017 Brenner Diversity 2016 Brenner Malermeister 2016 Brenner 2011 Buff 1887 Cilleßen & Tacke 2019 Diemer 2004 Doherty, Leonard & Wadum 2006 Falk 1968 Fischer & Taigel 1986 Hascher 1996 Heusinger 2010 Himmelein 1980 Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1953– Holbach 1999 Jakupski 1984 Jullien & Pauly 2016 Kahsnitz 1983 Kiesewetter 2010 Knebel 1902 Kohn 1981 Krause 2002 Landesbildstelle Baden & Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe 1986 Laufner & Kocks 1996 Lieb 1958 Lieb 1952 Liedke 1979 Lill 1908 Museen der Stadt Augsburg & Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche in Bavaria 1980 North 2001 Paas 1990 Peeters 2002 Pelzl 2017 Petz 1889 Poettering 2013 Reith 2005 Renger & Lee-Kalisch 2016 Rott 1934 Sandrart 1675 Schamschula 2019 Schneider 1983 Schulz 2016 Schulz & Suchard 2005 Schulz & Müller-Luckner 1999 Schürle 2003 Spamer 1930 Strecker 1998 Suárez Blanco 2016 Suchtelen 2006 Tacke, Schauerte & Brenner 2018 Tacke et al. 2018 Tacke Ordnung 2001 Tacke Hauer 2001 Tacke 1999 Thuillier & Bußmann 1999 Vertova 1976 Vischer 1890 Wagner 2014 Wegmann 2003 Weigel 1698 Weihrauch 1964 Weilandt 1993 Weinhold 2000 Weiss 2008 Wielandt 1936 Wilhelm 1983 Wissell & Schraepler 1971 Woollett & Suchtelen 2006 Woollett 2006 5 A Soul for a Bridge: On the History of Architectural Collaborations 1 Regensburg 2 Schöllenen Gorge 3 Building Sacrifices 4 Synagonism Bibliography 6 The Burden of Success in Quattrocento Sculpture: Lorenzo Ghiberti, Mino da Fiesole, Donatello 1 Between Continuity and Innovation 2 Bis Repetita Non Placent? Explanatory Models 3 First Case Study: Ghiberti and the Weight of Victory 4 Second Case Study: Mino and the Comparison of Unequal Memoria 5 Third Case Study: Variation and Distance in Donatello Bibliography Part 2: Intermedialities 7 Sound Spaces: Visualizations of Religious Music in Caravaggio 1 Il riposo durante la fuga in Egitto 2 Sounding Bodies 3 Notations 4 Sound Spaces Bibliography 8 Beyond the Paragone: Andrea del Sarto’s Color-Reduced Fresco Cycle in the Chios 1 Intermedial References I: Color-Reduced Wall Painting and Sculpture 2 Intermedial References II: Color-Reduced Wall Painting and Graphics 3 The Interaction of Media 4 Powerful Images 5 Conclusion and Outlook Bibliography 9 Medial Difference and Medial Synthesis in the Winged Altarpiece: The Oscillating 1 Incarnation and Otherworldliness in the Kleine Dom: the ‘Oscillating Gaze’ 2 The Crucifixion Altarpiece of the Master of the Bartholomew Altarpiece as a Reflection of the Scope of Visual Perception and Intellectual Cognition 3 Conclusion Bibliography Part 3: Nature and Art 10 Hands at Work 1 Tilman Riemenschneider’s The Removal of the Stone 2 Georg Bartisch’s Kunstbuch (Book of Practical Knowledge) Bibliography 11 Renaissance Architectural Culture and Geological Inquiry 1 Vitruvian Learned Empiricism 2 Renaissance Vitruvianism and Learned Empiricism 3 The Book of the Earth Bibliography 12 Synagonism in Stone 1 Van Eyck’s Stone Mirror 2 Painted Stone 3 Mineral Synergy 4 Sliced Colors Bibliography Index