Grotesque and Caricature

Leonardo to Bernini
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-44464-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 68, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 606 g

Reihe: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

Grotesque and Caricature: Leonardo to Bernini examines these two genres across Renaissance and Early Modern Italy. Although their origins stem from Antiquity, it were Leonardo da Vinci’s early teste caricate that injected fresh life into the tradition, greatly inspiring generations of artists. Critical among them were his Milanese followers, such as Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, and also Michelangelo and Sebastiano del Piombo as well as, notably, Annibale Carracci, Guercino, and Bernini among others. Their artistic production—drawings, prints, paintings, and sculpture—reveals deep interest in physical, physiognomic, and psychological observations with a penchant for humour and wit. Written by an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume explores new insights to these complementary artistic genres.

Contributors include: Carlo Avilio, Ilaria Bernocchi, Christophe Brouard, Sandra Cheng, Susan Klaiber, Michael W. Kwakkelstein, Tod A. Marder, Rebecca Norris, Lucia Tantardini, Nicholas J. L. Turner, Mary Vaccaro, and Matthias Wivel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tantardini, Lucia

Norris, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements

Lucia Tantardini, Rebecca Norris and Lucia Tantardini

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Notes on the Text

Monstrous Inventions: Caricature and the Grotesque in Early Modern Art

Sandra Cheng

1 Leonardo da Vinci’s Drawings of Busts of Old Men and Women with Monstruous Faces: Satire as Moral Criticism

Michael W. Kwakkelstein

2 Lomazzo’s Grotesque Heads Revisited

Lucia Tantardini

3 Sebastiano del Piombo’s Caricatural Gesture and the Path to Idealism

Matthias Wivel

4 Burlesque Irreverences: Domenico Campagnola and Ruzante in the Corte Cornaro

Christophe Brouard

5 Carracci’s Ritrattini Carichi and the ‘Origins’ of Caricature

Mary Vaccaro

6 Guercino’s Grotesque Heads and Caricatures

Nicholas Turner

7 Deformation as Revelation: A Monstrous Portrait by Bartolomeo Passerotti

Ilaria Bernocchi

8 Heavenly Bodies III: Bernini’s Caricatures and Copies

Tod Marder

9 Rudolf Wittkower, Bernini’s Caricatures (1931)

Translator Susan Klaiber

10 Jusepe de Ribera and the Grotesque: Between Science and Comedy

Carlo Avilio

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca Norris, PhD (2014, University of Cambridge), is Adjunct Instructor in Art History at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. She is a scholar of North Italian Renaissance.

Lucia Tantardini, PhD (2014, University of Cambridge), is an Affiliated Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is a scholar of Renaissance Milan and is currently working on two books: Aurelio Luini (ca. 1530–93). The Complete Paintings and Drawings (Ugo Bozzi) and Drawing in Renaissance and Early Modern Milan (Routledge).