The Religious Art of Jacopo Bassano
The Religious Art of Jacopo Bassano
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Paolo Berdini here offers a new and provocative re-evaluation of a selected group of paintings, drawings, and religious objects by one of the most inventive artists of the late Italian Renaissance. Situating these works within their historical context, and particularly the reforms in religious experience occasioned by the Council of Trent, this study also challenges traditional iconographic analysis, particularly the word-image paradigm celebrated in much art history. Utilising both the methods of hermeneutics and phenomenology, The Religious Art of Jacopo Bassano introduces a new model for understanding the painter as a reader, and for coming to terms with visual exegesis.
- Offers a critique of iconography
- Creates a model for understanding the painter as a reader
- Critically re-evaluates the religious art of Jacopo Bassano
Reviews & endorsements
'Berdini develops his critical discourse with great aplomb. His text is highly condensed, but his positions are attractive, his ideas stimulating'. Jack M. Greenstein, Burlington Magazine
Product details
October 1997Hardback
9780521561709
224 pages
261 × 185 × 19 mm
0.845kg
43 b/w illus. 8 colour illus.
Unavailable - out of print March 2005
Table of Contents
- Introduction: from text to artist
- 1. Oxymoron
- 2. Ipsissima Vox: the parable as picture
- 3. Genre scenes
- 4. The Paschal night
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
