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Bildpolemischer Künstlerstreit
Von Leonbruno bis Hogarth
Based on 18 cases dated between 1525 and 1763, this monograph, an output of the DFG project "Visual Artists’ Disputes and their Strategies in the Early Modern Era", explains how we can recognize that paintings, reliefs or prints were created in connection with a disagreement between artists or with their patrons. Works by, among others, Leonbruno, Lelio Orsi, Stradanus, Federico Zuccari, Leone Leoni, Rembrandt, Piranesi and William Hogarth show the creative handling of censorship and with moral bans of offensive depictions of people. The comparative overview exposes traditions of visual polemic codes: Artistic competition without emotion is a fiction of powerful legends.
