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RIGHTS AVAILABLE, April 2000
The publication
In this work the author has charted the major trends in painting
produced in Italy in XVI century. This has been achieved by citing
a great variety of events and develop-ments, of complex cultural
situations and relations between town and town and artist and artist.
By placing the emphasis on political developments, the writer is
able to point out the relation between apparently isolated events
and the broader historical currents involving entire states. With
the shattering of the illusion of a world thought to have achieved
a political as well as cultural balance, a situation of tension
and conflict was gradually created, the like of which perhaps had
never been seen before in history. Though frequently taking the
form of religious struggles throughout Europe it often expressed
deep social conflicts. This religious turbulence had a profound
effect on artistic production and the more sensitive masters found
the means to express the acutely painful, though ultimately creative,
aspects of their spiritual disquiet.
The Author
Maria Calì is professor of History of Modern Art at the
University of Salerno, and lec-turer in the same subject on the
Graduate Course in Cultural Heritage at the Faculty of Literature
at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples.
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