Baroque Science, Experimental Art? Jusepe de Ribera and other Neapolitan Sceptics
| Autor: | Itay Sapir |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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History
Painting media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Passions Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts Art 050905 science studies Faith 060105 history of science technology & medicine History and Philosophy of Science Baroque Aesthetics 0601 history and archaeology Narrative 0509 other social sciences Theme (narrative) media_common Skepticism |
| Zdroj: | Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. 44(1) |
| ISSN: | 1522-2365 |
| Popis: | Current attempts by historians of science to revise the narrative of the Scientific Revolution by using the concept of the Baroque have important implications for art history. Correspondences between baroque art and baroque science gain new complexity when the rational, epistemologically optimistic image of the New Science is put in doubt. Rather than a method of objective observation, early seventeenth-century science and art share an acceptance of the constructed nature of reality, of human epistemological limitations and of the role of passions in the observation of the world. While Caravaggio has revolutionised art precisely through his interest in questions of knowledge and sensorial perception and by his subversive transformation of Renaissance epistemological values and ideals, this article concentrates on the work of Jusepe de Ribera, who made the senses and their shortcomings a major theme of his pictorial research. Ribera's epistemology is examined in the context of contemporary Neapolitan philosophy and science. Through the confrontation of some of the Spagnoletto's paintings with the work of figures such as Giovanni Battista della Porta, Federico Cesi and particularly Colantonio Stigliola, it becomes clear that early modern Neapolitan faith in rational knowledge was more ambiguous than is sometimes assumed. |
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