Publisher description for Pittoresco : Marco Boschini, his critics, and their critiques of painterly brushwork in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy / Philip Sohm.
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This is a history of brushwork and painting technique, of art criticism and visual perception and of literary style in the period c.1550-1750. The appeal and disdain of loose, sketchy brushwork in Venetian Renaissance and Italian Baroque painting is studied linguistically by means of a number of key terms in the critics' arsenal. At the center is pittoresco, i.e. "painterly" or a loose, sketchy style of brushwork accepted by some for its spontaneity and search for form but condemned by others for its apparent haphazard sloppiness. The champion of the impressionistic style was Marco Boschini, a Venetian art dealer, art critic and painter. In studying the criticism of sketchy brushwork, this book reveals a more general history of taste and a history of ideas on such issues as naturalism and imagination.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Painting, Italian Italy Venice 17th century, Painting, Italian Italy Venice 18th century, Painting, Italian Italy Venice Technique, Boschini, Marco, 1613-1678 Criticism and interpretation