Readings in Italian Mannerism

384 Pages·1997·6.431 MB·English

by  Liana de Girolami Cheney

READINGS IN
KTALKAN
MANNJERK§M
Edited by Liana De Girolami Cheney
with a Foreword by Craig Hugh Smyth
Readings in Italian Mannerism
American University Studies
Series XX
Fine Arts
Vol. 24
PETER LANG
New York • Washington, D.C./Baltimore
Bern • Frankfurt am Main • Berlin • Vienna • Paris
Readings in
Italian Mannerism
Liana De Girolami Cheney, Editor
with a Foreword by Craig Hugh Smyth
PETER LANG
New York • Washington, D.C./Baltimore
Bern • Frankfurt am Main • Berlin • Vienna • Paris
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Readings in Italian mannerism/ Liana De Girolami Cheney, editor.
p. em.~ (American university studies, XX, Fine arts; v. 24)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Mannerism (Art)~ltaly. 2. Art, Italian. I. Cheney, Liana. II. Series:
American university studies. Series XX, Fine arts; vol. 24.
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DEDICATION
In memory of my friend and colleague
Iris Hofmeister Cheney
(1929-1994)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The publication of the included essays in this book was made
possible thanks to the permissions of the listed publishers with
their respective essays.
Giorgio Vasari, "Preface to the Third Part," in The Lives of the Most
Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, trans. Gaston Du C. de
Vere, intro Kenneth Clark, 3 vols., New York: Harry N. Abrams,
Inc., 1979, II, 771-775. (Translation of the 1568 edition of Le vite
de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori e architetti.)
Walter F. Friedlaender, "The Anticlassical Style," in Mannerism
and Anti-Mannerism in Italian Painting, intro Donald Posner, 2nd
ed. New York: Schocken, 1965, pp. 3-43. (Translation of the
original, "Die Entstehung des antiklassichen Stiles in der
italienischen Malerei urn 1520," Repertorium filr Kunstwissenschaft,
46 (1925), pp. 49-86.
Max Dvofak, "El Greco and Mannerism," trans. John Coolidge,
Magazine of Art 46 (1953), pp. 14-23. (Shorter version of "uber
Greco und den Manierismus," Kunstgeschichte als Geisteschichte,
Munich: Piper, 1928.)
Craig Hugh Smyth, "Mannerism and Maniera," in Studies in
Western Art: Acts of the Twentieth International Congress of the
History of Art, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963, pp.
174-99. (Reprinted with notes in Mannerism and Maniera, Locust
Valley, New York: J.J. Augustin, 1963.)
Ernst Hans Gombrich, "The Historiographic Background of the
Concept of Mannerism," in Studies in Western Art: Acts of the
Twentieth International Congress of the History of Art, Princeton:
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Princeton University Press, 1963, pp. 163-173. (Reprinted in
Norm and Form, Studies in the Art of the Renaissance t London and
New York: Phaidon, 1966 reprinted. 1978, pp. 99-106.)
John Shearman, "Maniera as an Aesthetic Ideal/' in Studies in
Western Art: Acts of the Twentieth International Congress of the
History of Art, Princeton University Press, 1963, pp. 200-21.
(Reprinted in Renaissance Art, ed. Creighton Gilbert, New York:
Harper and Row, 1970, pp. 181-221.)
Sydney Joseph Freedberg, "Observations on the Painting of the
Maniera/' Art Bulletin 47 (1965), pp. 187-97.
Henri Zerner, "Observations on the Use of the Concept of
Mannerism/' in The Meaning of Mannerism, eds. Franklin W.
Robinson and Stephen G. Nichols, Jr., Hanover, New Hampshire:
University Press of New England, 1972, pp. 105-21.
David Summers, "Maniera and Movement: The Figura
Serpentinata/' Art Quarterly 35 (1972), pp. 269-301.
Malcolm Campbell, "Mannerism, Italian Style," in Essays on
Mannerism in Art and Music. Papers Read at the West Chester State
College Symposium on Interdisciplinary Studies, November 18, 1978,
eds. Sterling E. Murray, Ruth Irwin Weidner, West Chester,
Pennsylvania: West Chester State College, 1980, pp. 1-33.
The editor, contributors, and publishers wish to thank the
galleries, libraries, museums, private collectors, and publishing
presses for permitting the reproduction in black-and-white of
architectural edifices, drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, and
other pertinent materials from their collections herewith
reproduced. Photographs and permissions have been supplied by
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the generosity and assistance of Art Resource in New York, in
particular by the efforts of Daisy Hu, as well as by the collections,
galleries, and museums listed in each illustration whose courtesy is
gratefully acknowledged.
My gratitude is extended to the Healey Grant Foundation and
the University of Massachusetts Lowell for their support of my
research. The assistance of Nancy Desmond, Research
Foundation of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, was
invaluable in the preparation of the manuscript. The support of
the Peter Lang's staff is as well recognized and appreciated.
Lastly, I wish to thank my students, in particular, Elizabeth
Donnelly, Deborah Griffin, Dian Jazynka, Linnea Olson, Susan
Poinatowski, Sandra Rei, Karen Spinelli, and Virginia Robson,
who continue to teach me to probe on the beauty of Italian
Mannerism.