{"id":23543,"date":"2022-11-22T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/char.hypotheses.org\/?p=23543"},"modified":"2022-09-26T17:21:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:21:24","slug":"parution-david-young-kim-groundwork-a-history-of-the-renaissance-picture-princeton-university-press-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/char.hypotheses.org\/23543","title":{"rendered":"Parution : David Young Kim, \u00ab Groundwork: A History of the Renaissance Picture \u00bb, Princeton University Press, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic foreshortening of the body to create depth to the subtle blending of tones and colors to achieve greater naturalism. Yet these techniques rely on a powerful compositional element that often goes overlooked.\u00a0Groundwork<\/i>\u00a0provides the first in-depth examination of the complex relationship between figure and ground in Renaissance painting.<\/p>\n

\u201cGround\u201d can refer to the preparation of a work\u2019s surface, the fictive floor or plane, or the background on which figuration occurs. In laying the material foundation, artists perform groundwork, opening the ground as a zone that can precede, penetrate, or fracture the figure. David Young Kim looks at the work of Gentile da Fabriano, Giovanni Bellini, Giovanni Battista Moroni, and Caravaggio, reconstructing each painter\u2019s methods to demonstrate the intricacies involved in laying ground layers whose translucency and polychromy permeate the surface. He charts significant transitions from gold ground painting in the Trecento to the darkened grounds in Baroque tenebrism, and offers close readings of period texts to shed new light on the significance of ground forms such as rock face, wall, and cave.<\/p>\n

This beautifully illustrated book reconceives the Renaissance picture, revealing the passion and mystery of groundwork and discovering figuration beyond the human figure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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David Young Kim<\/b>\u00a0is associate professor of art history at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting lecturer at the University of Zurich. He is the author of\u00a0The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance: Geography, Mobility, and Style<\/i>\u00a0and the editor of\u00a0Matters of Weight: Force, Gravity, and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Period<\/i>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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