The Artist grows old : the aging of art and artists in Italy, 1500-1800
"How does the artist's self-conception change in old age? How does old age affect artistic practice? In this intriguing study, art historian Philip Sohm considers some of the greatest artists of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and their experiences of aging. Sohm investigates how art critics, collectors, biographers and fellow artists dealt with old painters, what mental landscapes preconditioned responses to art by the elderly and how biology and psychology were co-opted to explain the imprint that artists left on their art. He also looks carefully at the impact of prejudices, stereotypes, and other imaginary truths about old age."--BOOK JACKET.
New Haven ; London
Yale University Press
2007
ix,222 p. : ill. )some col( ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780300121230
Philip Sohm
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Psychology -- Gerontophobia and the anxiety of obsolescence -- Narcissus and old-age narcissism -- Making art in old age -- Poussin's hands and Titian's eyes -- Titian invents an old-age style -- Pontormo in San Lorenzo -- Historiography -- Life cycles of art -- Turning points: micro-macrohistories of aging.
، Older artists--Italy--Biography--History and criticism.