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How does the artist's self-conception change in old age? How does old age affect artistic practice? In this study, art historian Sohm considers some of the greatest artists of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and their experiences of aging. Sohm investigates how art critics, collectors, biographers and fellow artists dealt with old painters, what mental landscapes preconditioned responses to art by the elderly and how biology and psychology were co-opted to explain the imprint that artists left on their art. He also looks carefully at the impact of prejudices, stereotypes, and other imaginary truths about old age. For some artists, the problems of old age were related to physical decline - Poussin's hands became shaky, Titian's eyesight dimmed. For others, psychological symptoms emerged. The book's cast of characters includes Michelangelo, the hypochondriac young fogey; Titian, the shrewd marketer of old age; the multiphobic Pontormo; and others. Sohm uncovers what it meant to be an old artist.

Painting --- Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- late works --- Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles --- old age --- schilderkunst --- painting [image-making] --- Art --- anno 1500-1799 --- Italy --- 7.04 --- Iconografie. Iconologie. Onderwerpen van kunstzinnige uitbeelding --- 7.04 Iconografie. Iconologie. Onderwerpen van kunstzinnige uitbeelding --- Ageism --- Art criticism --- Art, Italian --- Older artists --- Aged artists --- Aged as artists --- Artists --- Arts --- Criticism --- Aging --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Prejudices --- Social perception --- History --- Biography&delete& --- History and criticism --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Psychological aspects --- Biography --- Italiaanse school