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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on December 22, 1998. The length of the article is 867 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Religious Art of Jacopo Bassano: Painting as Visual Exegesis.(Review)
Author: Peter Humfrey
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1998
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: 51Issue: 4Page: 1348(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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Widely acknowledged as one of the first landscape and genre painters in Italy, Jacopo Bassano (ca. 1510-1592) was highly regarded during his career for his brilliant treatment of light and color and for his innovative rural themes. Although he can be viewed as a pioneer pointing the way to the Dutch landscape painting of the seventeenth century, this Venetian painter is less known today than many of his contemporaries. In this book, Bernard Aikema uses a contextual approach to perform a much-needed iconological analysis of Bassano's painterly production. By tracing a remarkably consistent use of imagery grounded in a spiritual perspective, Aikema seeks to change our conception not only of the importance of Bassano's oeuvre, but also of the original function and development of genre and landscape painting in Northern Italy as compared to that in The Netherlands.

Aikema argues that Bassano developed an imagery that expressed itself in an antithetical mode of representation--in which a good Christian way of life is contrasted with a materialistic concept of human conduct. The author challenges the common belief that Bassano switched to rural settings and genre painting late in life in order to satisfy art collectors' demands for "pastoral" and "low-life" subjects. Even in paintings where the religious scenes are hidden in the background or are lacking altogether, these works had a primarily spiritual function. Aikema shows how such paintings served as visual aids to the changing devotional needs in the second half of the cinquecento. ... Read more

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on December 22, 1998. The length of the article is 865 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Jacopo Bassano and His Public: Moralizing Pictures in an Ages of Reform, ca. 1535-1600.(Review)
Author: Peter Humfrey
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1998
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: 51Issue: 4Page: 1348(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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In The Religious Art of Jacopo Bassano: Painting as Visual Exegesis, Paolo Berdini offers a new and provocative reevaluation of a selected group of paintings, drawings, and religious objects by one of the inventive artists of the late Italian Renaissance.This study also challenges traditional iconograph analysis, particularly the word-image paradigm celebrated in much art history.Utilizing both the methods of hermeneutics and phenomenology, The Religous Art of Jacopo Bassano introduces a new model for understanding the painter as a reader, and for coming to terms with visual exegesis. ... Read more