The Cambridge Companion To Raphael (cambridge Companions To The History Of Art)

Raphael is a rare painter who was never out of fashion. This book addresses some of the interests of recent scholarship, which has changed the focus from concern with attribution and definition of Raphael’s style and the classic style of the High Renaissance to more practical matters. Investigation of the intellectual and cultural history of sixteenth century Rome and Florence in the past generation have made it possible to put Raphael in the context of his patrons and his other contemporaries. Raphael managed what was no doubt the largest workshop to date and it provided the model for many artists who followed him. This leads us to an understanding of the privileging of invention over execution that takes place increasingly in the sixteenth century. Raphael became the model for artists, beginning already soon after his death and continuing after the collapse of the academic tradition in the late nineteenth century. This reverence is studied in the final section of this book, including an essay that traces changing tastes in restoring his paintings. xiii, 415 pages : 23 cm Includes bibliographical references and index Young Raphael and the practice of painting in Renaissance Italy / Jeryldene M. Wood -- Raphael and his patrons: form the court of Urbino to the Curia and Rome / Sheryl E. Reiss -- The contested city: urban from in early sixteenth-century Rome / Linda Pellecchia -- The Vatican Stanze / Ingrid Rowland -- One artist, two sitters, one role: Raphael's papal portraits / Joanna Woods-Marsden -- The competition between Raphael Michelangelo and Sebastian's role in it / Costanza Barbieri -- Raphael's workshop and the development of a managerial style / Bete Talvacchia -- Raphael's multiples / Patricia Emison -- Raphael drawings, pro-contra / Linda Wolk-Simon -- Classicism, mannerism and the relieflike style / Marcia B. Hall -- French identity in the realm of Raphael / Carl Goldstein -- Raphael's European famine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Giovanna Perini -- Restoring Raphael / Cathleen Sarea Hoeniger "This companion volume provides a timely reassessment of Raphael, the rare painter who has never gone out of fashion, and addresses the interests of recent scholarship, which has changed the focus from concerns with attribution and definition of the artist's style and the High Renaissance to more practical matters. Essays in this volume examine the intellectual and cultural history of sixteenth-century Rome and Florence that have made it possible to set Raphael in the context of his patrons and his other contemporaries. They demonstrate Raphael's considerable skills as the manager of the largest workshop of his day, one that provided a model for many artists who followed him."--Jacket. https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani0000unse_c9t7 Raphael, 1483-1520 -- Criticism and interpretation; Raphael, 1483-1520; Raffaello (Sanzio)