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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
INTRODUCTION
The Semantic Field of “Bravura”
Synopsis
1. CELEBRATIONS OF VIOLENCE
The Artist as Executioner
Beautiful Horror: The Massacre of the Innocents by Marino, Rubens, and Poussin
Swashbuckling and Warcraft
Media and Immediacy in alla prima
2. THE FIGURAL TOUR DE FORCE
The Art of (Fore)Shortening: Repertoire and Scorcio in Battle Paintings
Sacrificial Bodies
Pazzia bestialissima: Rubens’s Copy after Leonardo’s Battle of the Standard
Rubens Storms the Ramparts: The Fall of Phaeton
3. THE SPATIAL TOUR DE FORCE
Bending the Curve
Cutting Edge Solutions
The Glory of the Dome
4. BRAVURA AS PAINTERLY STYLE
Sprezzatura artificiosa
The Appeal of Sketchiness
Tintoretto as Primus inter pares
The Art of Fencing
5. COMMUNICATING ARTIFICE
A Day’s Work
Luca Giordano and Il far presto
To Witness Painting
6. ECONOMIES OF PRACTICE
Carlo Dolci’s Excessive Diligence
The Incalculable Artist
Vanagloria
The Fragility of Fame
7. ARTE-FACTUM: THE FEMINIZING BRAVURA
The Artifice of Painterly Mimesis
Titian’s Vaghezza
Manu-Facture
Role Reversal
8. ENDANGERING THE YOUTH
Caravaggio’s Realism
Giuseppe Cesari Lifting Weights
Blind Practice
9. THE ACADEMIC RESPONSE
The Sophistication of Légèreté
“Mechanick Genius”
Forever Young
The “Inspired Waste” of Fragonard
10. REENACTMENTS AND ECHOES
Frans Hals’s Realist Bravura
The Afterlife of Bravura
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Photo Credits
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