Artist Analysis

You will be analyzing three scholars’ interpretations of the works by a single artist. You will select ONE of the following artists to write about: Domenico Ghirlandaio (15^th century); Raphael Sanzio (16^th century); Caravaggio (17^th century); Jacques-Louis David (18^th century); Édouard Manet (19^th century); or Andy Warhol (20^th century).

You will be reading THREE pre-selected articles about the artist that you have chosen. Here are the articles.

Ghirlandaio

Charles M. Rosenberg, “Virtue, Piety and Affection: Some Portraits by Domenico Ghirlandaio,” in Il ritratto e la memoria. Material 2, ed. Augusto Gentile, Philippe Morel and Claudia Cieri Via. Rome: Bulzoni, 1993, pp. 173-195.

DePrano, Maria. “‘No painting on earth would be more beautiful’: an analysis of Giovanna degli Albizzi’s portrait inscription.” Renaissance Studies 22, no. 5 (2008): 617-641.

Koch, Linda A. “The Portrayal of Female Sainthood in Renaissance San Gimignano: Ghirlandaio’s Frescoes of Santa Fina’s Legend.” Artibus et Historiae 19, no. 38 (1998): 143-170.

Raphael

Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L. “The Concord of Law in the Stanza della Segnatura.” Artibus et Historiae 15, no. 29 (1994): 85-98.

Schwartz, Michael. “Raphael’s Authorship in the Expulsion of Heliodorus.”The Art Bulletin 79, no. 3 (1997): 466-492.

Reilly, Patricia L. “Raphael’s Fire in the Borgo and the Italian Pictorial Vernacular.” The Art Bulletin 92, no. 4 (2010): 308-325.

Caravaggio

Pericolo, Lorenzo. “Caravaggio’s” The Cardsharps” and Marino’s” Gioco di Primera”: A Case of Intertextuality?.” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 53 (2008): 129-152.

Fried, Michael. The moment of Caravaggio. Princeton University Press, 2010, 98-139.

Olson, Todd P. Caravaggio’s Pitiful Relics. Yale University Press, 2014, 15-51.

David

Halliday, Tony. “The Trouble with Tatius.” Oxford Art Journal 29, no. 2 (2006): 197-211.

Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo. “Nudity à la grecque in 1799.” The Art Bulletin 80, no. 2 (1998): 311-335.

Padiyar, Satish. “Who Is Socrates? Desire and Subversion in David’s Death of Socrates (1787).” Representations 102 (2008): 27-52.

Manet

Kessler, Marni R. “Unmasking Manet’s Morisot.” The Art Bulletin 81, no. 3 (1999): 473-489.

Armstrong, Carol. “Facturing Femininity: Manet’s” Before the Mirror”.”October 74 (1995): 75-104.

Dolan, Therese. “Skirting the Issue: Manet’s Portrait of Baudelaire’s Mistress, Reclining.” The Art Bulletin 79, no. 4 (1997): 611-629.

Warhol

Stimson, Blake. “Andy Warhol’s Red Beard.” The Art Bulletin 83, no. 3 (2001): 527-547.

Foster, Hal. “Test Subjects.” October 132 (2010): 30-42.

Grudin, Anthony E. ““Except Like a Tracing”: Defectiveness, Accuracy, and Class in Early Warhol.” October 140 (2012): 139-164.