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  title info:
    title: Mochi's edge and Bernini's baroque
  name:
    name part: Lingo, Estelle
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 328 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
  abstract: This book takes the extraordinary art of the Tuscan sculptor Francesco Mochi (1580-1654) as the entry point for an inquiry into the historical and cultural forces reshaping sculpture at the beginning of the seventeenth century. This book takes the extraordinary art of the Tuscan sculptor Francesco Mochi (1580-1654) as the entry point for an inquiry into the historical and cultural forces reshaping sculpture at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Mochi has long been understood as an early innovator of the baroque style whose career was eclipsed by the rise of his younger contemporary Gianlorenzo Bernini. But for his sole seventeenth-century biographer, what distinguished Mochi's sculpture was his determination to adhere to the Florentine manner. This study argues that the post-Tridentine religious climate and the demands of consolidating absolutist regimes posed specific challenges for sculpture, particularly as the medium had been assertively developed during the first half of the sixteenth century by Florentine sculptors, most famously Michelangelo. As analyzed here, Mochi's highly distinctive sculptural style stemmed directly from his attempt to carry forward a Florentine and Michelangelesque tradition of sculpture, above all its commitments to the representation of the body, the materiality of sculpture and the agency of the artist and to reconcile that tradition with imperatives of his own day. Mochi's ambitious undertaking produced an extreme tension in his art that resulted in some of the century's most breathtaking sculptures, though ultimately fracturing his career. The book offers wholly new interpretations of Mochi's monumental works and a new, historically engaged account of the origins of baroque sculpture and the rise to dominance of Bernini's mature sculptural style. The volume is enriched by specially commissioned color photographs of Mochi's sculptures.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Sculpture's shame -- Chapter 2: Draping Michelangelo -- Chapter 3: Power and the grotesque -- Chapter 4: Crossings -- Chapter 5: Unfinished endings.
  note: Estelle Lingo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mochi, Francesco
      name part: 1580-1654
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
      name part: 1598-1680
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Sculpture, Baroque
    geographic: Italy
  classification: NB623.M597 L56 2017
  classification: 709.945
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Harvey Miller studies in Baroque art
  identifier: 1909400807
  identifier: 9781909400801
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 170106
    record change date: 20211009063144.0
    record identifier: in00003909009