Practice and Theory in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Verrocchio and the Epistemology of Making Art...

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Christina Neilson (Oberlin College, Ohio)

Practice and Theory in the Italian Renaissance Workshop

Verrocchio and the Epistemology of Making Art

Christina Neilson (Oberlin College, Ohio)

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Cambridge University Press
18 July 2019

Renaissance art; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs

Verrocchio was arguably the most important sculptor between Donatello and Michelangelo but he has seldom been treated as such in art historical literature because his achievements were quickly superseded by the artists who followed him. He was the master of Leonardo da Vinci, but he is remembered as the sulky teacher that his star pupil did not need. In this book, Christina Neilson argues that Verrocchio was one of the most experimental artists in fifteenth-century Florence, itself one of the most innovative centers of artistic production in Europe. Considering the different media in which the artist worked in dialogue with one another (sculpture, painting, and drawing), she offers an analysis of Verrocchio's unusual methods of manufacture. Neilson shows that, for Verrocchio, making was a form of knowledge and that techniques of making can be read as systems of knowledge. By studying Verrocchio's technical processes, she demonstrates how an artist's theoretical commitments can be uncovered, even in the absence of a written treatise.

By: Christina Neilson (Oberlin College Ohio)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 261mm, Width: 185mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 960g
ISBN: 9781107172852
ISBN 10: 1107172853
Pages: 362
Publication Date: 18 July 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christina Neilson is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History at Oberlin College, Ohio. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, among others, she curated and wrote the catalogue for the exhibition 'Parmigianino's Antea: A Beautiful Artifice' at The Frick Collection, New York.