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Ornament & illusion : Carlo Crivelli of Venice / edited by Stephen J. Campbell ; with essays by C. Jean Campbell, Stephen J. Campbell, Francesco De Carolis, Thomas Golsenne, Gianfranco Pocobene, Oliver Tostmann, Alison Wright

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Ornament and illusion
Published
London : Paul Holberton Publishing ; Boston : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2015.
Physical Description
231 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), 1 color map ; 28 cm
Additional Creators
Campbell, Stephen J. (Stephen John), 1963-, Campbell, C. Jean, 1960-, De Carolis, Francesco, Golsenne, Thomas, Pocobene, Gianfranco, 1957-, Tostmann, Oliver, Wright, Alison, 1965-, Crivelli, Carlo, active 15th century. Selections, and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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Contents
On the importance of Crivelli / Stephen J. Campbell -- Grace in the making : Carlo Crivelli and the techniques of devotion / C. Jean Campbell -- Crivelli’s divine materials / Alison Wright -- Carlo Crivelli : portrait of the artist as a cucumber / Thomas Golsenne -- Crivelli and the antiquarians : the rediscovery of the Italian “Primitives” in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italy / Francesco De Carolis -- An “inordinate” passion? : Carlo Crivelli and his reception in America / Oliver Tostmann -- Carlo Crivelli’s St. George slaying the dragon : materiality, facture, and restoration / Gianfranco Pocobene.
Summary
The work of Carlo Crivelli (c.1435-c.1495), one of the most original artists of the Italian Renaissance, is well represented in the art museums of North America. Although much admired by collectors, artists, and designers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, he has until recently been largely written out of the history of early Renaissance art, is little known to the public, and outside of some rare instances in Italy, has never been the focus of a monographic exhibition. The book, accompanying an exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, will reevaluate Crivelli s provincial status, presenting him as an experimental artist who provided an alternative to the influential new models of modern painting associated with Florence. He was an artist who aimed to dazzle through a repertoire of spectacular pictorial effects that combined luxuriant ornamental display with bravura illusionism the latter entailing a sophisticated, witty, and sometimes unsettling play with the limits of frames and fictive space.
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ISBN
1907372865 paperback
9781907372865 paperback
Note
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, October 22, 2015 - January 25, 2016.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-230).
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Class of 1968 Libraries Program Endowment; 2017
Endowment Note
Class of 1968 Libraries Program Endowment
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