Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy: Baschenis, Bettera and the Painting of Cultural Identity

by Ornat Lev-Er

Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy centers on the still-life compositions created by Evaristo Baschenis and Bartolomeo Bettera, two 17th-century painters living and working in the Italian city of Bergamo. This highly original study explores how these paintings form a dynamic network in which artworks, musical instruments, books, and scientific apparatuses constitute links to a dazzling range of figures and sources of knowledge. Putting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462988803
• ISBN13: 9789462988804
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.5"