L'Arte Nella Vita Degli Artisti Racconti Storici Di Pietro Selvatico. - Dante e Giotto. Bellini e Durero. Sanmicheli e Vasari. Schiavone e Vittoria. Veronica Franco e Tintoretto. Sofonisba Anguissola e Van Dyck. Bernardo Strozzi. Ernestina la Disegnatrice. Volume Unico.

Pietro Selvatico

RA Collection: Book

Record number

05/3458

Author

Imprint

Firenze,: G. Barbèra, Editore., 1870.

Physical Description

xi, [i], 526, [2] p.

Contents

[Half-title, t.p.] - Prefazione - [Text] - Indice.

References

F. Bernabei, 'P. Selvatico cent'anni dopo', in A. Ven., 34 (1980), p.138-46; F. Bernabei, Pietro Selvatico nella critica e nella storia delle arti (1974).

Summary Note

These racconti appear to be a form of "imaginary portraits" - reconstructions of artists' encounters and conversations. But they have a basis in historical documents, which Selvatico cites in notes.

Like other critics of his day, Selvatico was concerned with the relationship between the arts and society, and between aesthetics and ethics. He deprecated the reliance on pre-Christian, ancient Greek and Roman art that had prevailed since the time of the Renaissance, and drew attention to the achievements of artists of the Gothic period.

Binding Note

19th-century white vellum, gilt-decorated spine, red morocco spine labels lettered 'L'Arte Nella Vita Degli Artisti - Selvatico' and 'Firenze 1870. R.A.'

Subject

Art - Artists - Painters - Italy - History - 14th century - 16th century - 17th century - Renaissance
Art history - Biography - Italy - 19th century

Contributors

G. Barbera, publisher