Bravura: Virtuosity and Ambition in Early Modern European Painting
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The 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鈥檚 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 Fran耀ois Boucher, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens, Tintoretto, and Diego Vel谩zquez, Suthor explores the key elements defining bravura鈥檚 richness and power.
Suthor delves into how bravura鈥檚 unique and groundbreaking methods鈥攙isible brushstrokes, sharp chiaroscuro, severe foreshortening of the body, and other forms of visual emphasis鈥攃ause viewers to feel intensely the artist鈥檚 touch. Examining bravura鈥檚 etymological history, she traces the term鈥檚 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.