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Art, Baroque. --- Barock. --- Barok. --- Children in art. --- Kunst. --- Putti. --- Putto. --- Religieuze kunst. --- Geschichte 1450-1780.

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Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft. Though the objects art historians study are materially present in our world, the worlds from which they come are forever lost to time. In this eloquent and inspiring book, Michael Ann Holly traces how this disjunction courses through the history of art and shows how it can give rise to melancholic sentiments in historians who write about art. She confronts pivotal and vexing questions in her discipline: Why do art historians write in the first place? What kinds of psychic exchanges occur between art objects and those who write about them? What institutional and personal needs does art history serve? What is lost in historical writing about art? The Melancholy Art looks at how melancholy suffuses the work of some of the twentieth century's most powerful and poetic writers on the history of art, including Alois Riegl, Franz Wickhoff, Adrian Stokes, Michael Baxandall, Meyer Schapiro, and Jacques Derrida. A disarmingly personal meditation by one of our most distinguished art historians, this book explains why to write about art is to share in a kind of intertwined pleasure and loss that is the very essence of melancholy. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Art --- History as a science --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Melancholy. --- Mélancolie --- Historiography. --- Historiographie --- Melancholy --- Historiography --- Art - Historiography. --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Visual Arts - General --- Mélancolie --- Dejection --- Emotions --- Depression, Mental --- Sadness --- Art - Historiography --- Aby Warburg. --- Aestheticism. --- Aesthetics. --- Allegory. --- Alois Riegl. --- Anachronism. --- Analytic confidence. --- Ancient art. --- Aphorism. --- Art criticism. --- Art history. --- Arthur Schopenhauer. --- Artistic merit. --- Ben Nicholson. --- Bernard Berenson. --- Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher). --- Beyond the Pleasure Principle. --- Caspar David Friedrich. --- Christopher Bollas. --- Classicism. --- Connoisseur. --- Consciousness. --- Contemporary art. --- Criticism. --- Critique of Judgment. --- Death drive. --- Deconstruction. --- Ernst Gombrich. --- Erwin Panofsky. --- Explanation. --- Fra Angelico. --- Friedrich Nietzsche. --- Fritz Saxl. --- Garry Wills. --- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. --- George Steiner. --- Giovanni Morelli. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. --- Hayden White. --- Iconography. --- Illusionism (art). --- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jacques Lacan. --- Jacques-Alain Miller. --- James Strachey. --- Jan van Eyck. --- Johann Joachim Winckelmann. --- Josef Strzygowski. --- Julia Kristeva. --- Linguistic turn. --- Literary theory. --- Marion Milner. --- Marsilio Ficino. --- Martin Heidegger. --- Maurice Blanchot. --- Melanie Klein. --- Metahistory. --- Metonymy. --- Meyer Schapiro. --- Michael Baxandall. --- Minima Moralia. --- Modernism. --- Modernity. --- Museum. --- Oceanic feeling. --- Oskar Kokoschka. --- Overpainting. --- Paul de Man. --- Petrarch. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Positivism. --- Post-structuralism. --- Postmodernism. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Putto. --- Rainer Maria Rilke. --- Renaissance art. --- Rhetoric. --- Richard Wollheim. --- Romanticism. --- Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (van Eyck). --- Sandro Botticelli. --- Simone Martini. --- Svetlana Alpers. --- The Art of Memory. --- The Gaze of Orpheus. --- The Origin of German Tragic Drama. --- The Philosopher. --- Theses on the Philosophy of History. --- Thought. --- Tintoretto. --- Unthought known. --- W. G. Sebald. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Walter Pater. --- Work of art. --- Writing.

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In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and terra-cotta statuettes. He examines the different contexts in which images were used, from the religious to the voyeuristic, from the domestic to the subversive. He reads images alongside and against the rich literary tradition of the Greco-Roman world, including travel writing, prose fiction, satire, poetry, mythology, and pilgrimage accounts. The astonishing picture that emerges reveals the mindsets Romans had when they viewed art--their preoccupations and theories, their cultural biases and loosely held beliefs. Roman Eyes is not a history of official public art--the monumental sculptures, arches, and buildings we typically associate with ancient Rome, and that tend to dominate the field. Rather, Elsner looks at smaller objects used or displayed in private settings and closed religious rituals, including tapestries, ivories, altars, jewelry, and even silverware. In many cases, he focuses on works of art that no longer exist, providing a rare window into the aesthetic and religious lives of the ancient Romans.

Arts, Classical. --- Visual perception. --- Aesthetics, Roman. --- Roman aesthetics --- Optics, Psychological --- Vision --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- Classical arts --- Psychological aspects --- Adoration. --- Aelius Aristides. --- Aeschylus. --- Agalmatophilia. --- Anchises. --- Ancient Greek art. --- Ancient Rome. --- Anecdote. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Apuleius. --- Art history. --- Atargatis. --- Bathing. --- Bibliography. --- Capitoline Museums. --- Castration. --- Christian apologetics. --- Conflation. --- Cooling. --- Cult image. --- Cupid and Psyche. --- De Dea Syria. --- Deity. --- Diana and Actaeon. --- Drapery. --- Ekphrasis. --- Epigram. --- Epithet. --- Eroticism. --- Genre. --- Greco-Roman world. --- H II region. --- Hagiography. --- Hare Krishna (mantra). --- Harpocrates. --- Hellenization. --- Hierapolis. --- Hieros gamos. --- Hydrogen line. --- Iconography. --- Illustration. --- In the Water. --- Indulgence. --- Initiation. --- Ionic Greek. --- Ionization. --- Late Antiquity. --- Leucippe and Clitophon. --- Libation. --- Mimesis. --- Narrative logic. --- Narrative. --- Neo-Attic. --- Number density. --- Oculus. --- Our Choice. --- Parody. --- Philostratus. --- Photon. --- Piety. --- Poetry. --- Polytheism. --- Posture (psychology). --- Praxiteles. --- Procession. --- Pubic hair. --- Putto. --- Queen of Heaven. --- Reionization. --- Religion and sexuality. --- Religious image. --- Rite. --- Roman art. --- Satire. --- Sculpture. --- Second Sophistic. --- Self-consciousness. --- Sensibility. --- Serapis. --- Sexual intercourse. --- Sincerity. --- Social reality. --- Sophist (dialogue). --- Sophistication. --- Star formation. --- Subjectivity. --- Temperature. --- The Golden Ass. --- The Last Sentence. --- The Sea Monster. --- Theatricality. --- Venus Anadyomene. --- Verisimilitude (fiction). --- Verisimilitude. --- Viewing (funeral). --- Voluptas. --- Voyeurism. --- Vulva. --- Writing. --- Zeuxis. --- Romans --- Aesthetics. --- Religious life.

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Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century Spanish painting by concentrating on individual artists and their works and by stressing discovery of new information rather than interpretation. As a consequence, the painter emerges in isolation from the forces that shaped his work. Jonathan Brown offers another approach to the subject by relating important Spanish Baroque paintings and painters to their cultural milieu.A critical survey of the historiography of seventeenth-century Spanish painting introduces this two-part collection of essays. Part One provides the most detailed study to date of the artistic-literary academy of Francisco Pacheco, and Part Two contains original studies of four major painters and their works: Las Meninas of Velázquez, Zurbarán's decoration of the sacristy at Guadalupe, and the work by Murillo and Valdés Leal for the Brotherhood of Charity, Seville. The essays are unified by the author's intention to show how the artists interacted with and responded to the prevailing social, theological, and historical currents of the time. While this contextual approach is not uncommon in the study of European art, it is newly applied here to restore some of the diversity and substance that Spanish Baroque painting originally possessed.

Art. --- Art and society. --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Primitive --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Social aspects --- Catholic Church --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Abbasid Caliphate. --- Alonso Berruguete. --- Altarpiece. --- Angelo Nardi (painter). --- Antonio Mohedano. --- Antonio de Pereda. --- Apollo and Daphne (Bernini). --- Art history. --- Arte. --- Baroque painting. --- Bartolomé de las Casas. --- Benito Arias Montano. --- Caravaggio. --- Carthusians. --- Castile (historical region). --- Catholic Monarchs. --- Chapel of St. Jerome. --- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. --- Church Fathers. --- Cimabue. --- Classical mythology. --- Comedia (Spanish play). --- Council of Trent. --- Counter-Reformation. --- Court painter. --- Crown of Castile. --- Diego Velázquez. --- Discalced Carmelites. --- Don Juan Tenorio. --- El Greco. --- Erudition. --- Fernando de Herrera. --- Francisco Pacheco. --- Francisco de Borja. --- Francisco de Rioja. --- Friar. --- Garcilaso de la Vega (poet). --- Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos. --- Genre painting. --- Georges de La Tour. --- Gian Lorenzo Bernini. --- Giovanni Baglione. --- Giovanni Battista Crescenzi. --- Gustave Courbet. --- Hieronymites. --- Iconography. --- Ignatius of Loyola. --- Illusionism (art). --- Impressionism. --- In Ictu Oculi. --- Jan van Eyck. --- Juan de Mal Lara. --- Juan de las Roelas. --- Jusepe de Ribera. --- Las Hilanderas (Velázquez). --- Las Meninas. --- Literature. --- Marsilio Ficino. --- Masaccio. --- Matthew 25. --- Military order (monastic society). --- Museo del Prado. --- Order of Santiago. --- Our Lady of Guadalupe. --- Painting. --- Parmigianino. --- Pietro da Cortona. --- Poetic diction. --- Poetry. --- Protestantism. --- Putto. --- Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. --- Real Academia de la Historia. --- Religious art. --- Renaissance art. --- Sacristy. --- Saint Christopher. --- Santa Hermandad. --- Santa Trinita. --- Scholasticism. --- Seville Cathedral. --- Shakespeare's sonnets. --- Society of Jesus. --- Spain. --- Spanish Empire. --- Spanish Golden Age. --- Spanish art. --- Spanish nobility. --- Susanna (Book of Daniel). --- Teresa of Ávila. --- The Art of Painting. --- The Battle of Lepanto (Luna painting). --- The Dissertation. --- The Poetaster. --- The Return of the Prodigal Son (Rembrandt). --- Theory of painting. --- Tintoretto. --- Titian. --- University of Salamanca. --- Ut pictura poesis.