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Florence Larcher, « Parution : Bogdan Cornea, « The Matter of Violence in Baroque Painting », Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2022 », Centre d’histoire de l’art de la Renaissance, ID : 10.58079/mp3m
Baroque depictions of violence are often dismissed as ‘over the top’ and ‘excessive’. Their material richness and exciting visual complexity, together with the visceral engagement they demand from beholders, are usually explained in literature as reflecting the presumed violence of early modern society. This book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a close analysis of some of the most iconic works of the period. Baroque...