Cathleen Hoeniger

The Afterlife of Raphael's Paintings

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Produktbeschreibung

Raphael is one of the rare artists who have never gone out of fashion. Acclaimed during his lifetime, he was imitated by contemporaries and served as a model for painters through the nineteenth century. His works have continuously been subject to care, conservation, and restoration, and here Hoeniger focuses on the legacy of Raphael's art: the historical trajectory - or 'afterlife' - of the paintings themselves. Appreciation of Raphael was expressed and the restoration of his works debated in contemporary treatises, providing a backdrop for probing the fortune of his paintings. What happened to his panel-paintings and frescoes in the centuries after his death in 1520? Some were lost altogether; others damaged in natural disasters; and many were affected by uncontrolled climatic conditions, by travel from one place to another, and by the not always careful hands of restorers. This book reveals the five-hundred-year story of many of Raphael's most well-known paintings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1050g
• ISBN-13: 9780521196949
• ISBN-10: 0521196949
• Artikelnr.: 31082804

Autorenporträt

Cathleen Hoeniger is Associate Professor of Art History at Queen's University in Canada. The author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, she has recently contributed to Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas and Uncomfortable Truths and The Cambridge Companion to Raphael. She is also the author of The Renovation of Paintings in Tuscany, 1250-1500 (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Inhaltsangabe

1. An introduction to the history of restoring Raphael's paintings; 2. The
reception of Raphael, with a focus on the Vatican Stanze; 3. The history of
damage and restoration to Raphael's Stanze and the restoration of the
Loggia of Psyche in 1693-5; 4. The French king's Raphaels, 1750-1792; 5.
The English reception and restoration of Raphael's cartoons, c.1525-1800;
6. Changing ownership at a time of war: the movement of seventeen paintings
by Raphael during the Napoleonic era; 7. Raphael's great altarpieces in
Paris and Dresden, 1801-1828; 8. 'Heritage preservation', the establishment
of national galleries, and the restoration of Raphael in nineteenth-century
Italy; 9. Attention to detail in the study and preservation of Raphael's
art during the nineteenth century; 10. Conclusion: meticulous research,
revelatory cleanings, and the rediscovery of a lost Raphael.