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The Artist Grows Old

The Aging of Art and Artists in Italy, 1500-1800

By: Philip Lindsay Sohm

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The Artist Grows Old

The Aging of Art and Artists in Italy, 1500-1800

By: Philip Lindsay Sohm

How does the artist’s self-conception change in old age? How does old age affect artistic practice? In this intriguing study, art historian Philip 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 fogy; Titian, the shrewd marketer of old age; the multiphobic Pontormo; and others. With sensitivity and insight, Sohm uncovers what it meant to be an old artist and how successive generations have looked at the art of an old master.

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Yale University Press

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The Artist Grows Old

The Aging of Art and Artists in Italy, 1500-1800

By: Philip Lindsay Sohm

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The Aging of Art and Artists in Italy, 1500-1800

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Style in the Art Theory of Early Modern Italy

By: Philip Sohm

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Style in the Art Theory of Early Modern Italy

By: Philip Sohm

Style is one of the oldest and most powerful analytic tools available to art writers. Despite the importance of style as an artistic, literary, and historiographic practice, the study of it as a concept has been intermittent, perhaps, as Philip Sohm argues, because style has resisted neat definition since the very origins of art history as a discipline. His analysis of the language that painters and their literate public used to characterize painters and paintings will enrich our understanding about the concept of style.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521780691

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9780521780698

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The Artist Grows Old

The Artist Grows Old

The Artist Grows Old

The Artist Grows Old

Style in the Art Theory of Early Modern Italy

Style in the Art Theory of Early Modern Italy

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