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Il volume approfondisce la figura di Francesco d’Antonio di Francesco, l’orafo a cui l’Opera del Duomo di Siena affidò il compito di realizzare un reliquiario destinato a custodire la più importante reliquia esistente in città, insieme a quella del Sacro Chiodo: il braccio destro di San Giovanni Battista, dono di Pio II.Questo manufatto costituisce la sola opera pervenuta interamente progettata e realizzata nella bottega di Francesco d’Antonio, e dunque rappresenta il punto di partenza per l’imponente indagine artistica e storico-documentaria proposta in queste pagine.Gli autori, muovendo da un’accurata lettura dell’opera, ricostruiscono la personalità dell’artista, dedicando attenzione al contesto offerto dalla Siena dell’epoca, nella quale si forma e lavora per un lungo arco di tempo, confrontandosi con personalità quali Ghiberti, Donatello e Lorenzo di Pietro detto il Vecchietta.Il volume intende così porre delle basi per ricostruire un panorama complesso e per molti aspetti sfuggente - a causa delle ingenti perdite - come quello della produzione orafa a Siena tra gli anni trenta e gli anni ottanta del Quattrocento.

Iohannes Baptista --- Reliques --- Reliquaires --- Art metal-work, Renaissance --- Reliquaries --- Francesco, - d'Antonio di Francesco, - active 15th century --- John, - the Baptist, Saint

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The first major history of the bravura movement in European paintingThe painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and spread throughout Europe during the seventeenth century. While earlier artistic movements presented a polished image of the artist by downplaying the creative process, bravura celebrated a painter’s distinct materials, virtuosic execution, and theatrical showmanship. This resulted in the further development of innovative techniques and a popular understanding of the artist as a weapon-wielding acrobat, impetuous wunderkind, and daring rebel. In Bravura, Nicola Suthor offers the first in-depth consideration of bravura as an artistic and cultural phenomenon. Through history, etymology, and in-depth analysis of works by such important painters as Franҫois Boucher, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens, Tintoretto, and Diego Velázquez, Suthor explores the key elements defining bravura’s richness and power.Suthor delves into how bravura’s unique and groundbreaking methods—visible brushstrokes, sharp chiaroscuro, severe foreshortening of the body, and other forms of visual emphasis—cause viewers to feel intensely the artist’s touch. Examining bravura’s etymological history, she traces the term’s associations with courage, boldness, spontaneity, imperiousness, and arrogance, as well as its links to fencing, swordsmanship, henchmen, mercenaries, and street thugs. Suthor discusses the personality cult of the transgressive, self-taught, antisocial genius, and the ways in which bravura artists, through their stunning displays of skill, sought applause and admiration.Filled with captivating images by painters testing the traditional boundaries of aesthetic excellence, Bravura raises important questions about artistic performance and what it means to create art.

Painting --- History of civilization --- painting techniques --- painting [image-making] --- craftsmanship --- artists [visual artists] --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Europe --- Painting, Late Renaissance --- Painters --- Technique --- Psychology --- Late Renaissance painting --- Painting, Renaissance --- Painting. --- Ambitious Form. --- Beheading of John the Baptist. --- Bernard Weinberg. --- Cavaliere Mattia Preti. --- Francisco Goya. --- Francois Boucher. --- Giambattista Piazzetta. --- Giovannie Battista Armenini. --- Giuseppe Cesari. --- Hercules and Omphale. --- History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance. --- Il Bravo. --- Il far presto. --- Jean-Honore Fragonard. --- Jupiter, Neptune, and Plato. --- Las Hilanderas. --- Luca Giordano. --- Malle Babbe. --- Marco Boschini. --- Martyrdom of Saint Agatha. --- Michael Cole. --- Michael Polanyi. --- Philip Sohm. --- Pietro Testa. --- Pittoresco. --- Portraits de Fantaisie. --- Raphael. --- Royal Academy of England. --- Royal Academy of France. --- Self-Portrait with a Friend. --- The Fall of Phaeton. --- The Massacre of the Innocents. --- Titian. --- Vaghezza. --- Vasari. --- bravare. --- diligenza. --- ferocita. --- fierezza. --- franchezza. --- prestezza. --- sprezzatura.