Title | Reinventing Guercino: Prints, Pedagogy, and the Role of Imitation |
Publication Type | Thesis |
Year of Publication | 2022 |
Authors | Schrimsher, Kimberly |
Advisor | Campbell, C.J. (n97044606), McPhee, S. |
Institution | Emory |
Language | English |
Keywords | Painting; Seventeenth Century; Southern Europe and Mediterranean |
Abstract | The printed drawing book emerged in Italy at the turn of the seventeenth century and painters such as Giovanni Battista Barbieri (1591-1666), or Guercino, embraced the genre. By 1638 Guercino had published two versions of his own engraved by Oliviero Gatti and Francesco Curti, respectively. Guercino's manuals differ from those by his contemporaries because they present a curated selection of useful subjects for an aspiring painter to copy rather than haphazardly-arranged figural studies. Past assessments of Guercino's drawing books often discuss them in isolation and focus more on the first publication. Yet, seicento viewers saw the two manuals as intimately connected as evidenced by the afterlives of Guercino's drawings books and their subsequent republications in four countries. |
Addendum | 10/22/2022 |