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Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy

Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy

Various authors
2004
272 pages
219 illustrations
Book of the Year Award (ForeWord) in Art (2004)
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Sponsor's Statement
Director's Foreword
President's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Lenders to the Exhibition
Contributors to the Catalogue
Organizing Committee

Defining Naturalism in Lombard Painting
Andrea Bayer

Caravaggio and Lombardy: A Critical Account of the Artist's Formation
Mina Gregori

Naturalism in Lombard Drawing from Leonardo to Cerano
Linda Wolk-Simon

Catalogue

Leonardo and the Idea of Naturalism: Leonardo's Hypernaturalism
Essay by Martin Kemp
Catalogue numbers 1–22

Brescia and Bergamo: Humble Reality in Sixteenth-Century Devotional Art and Portraiture
Essay by Andrea Bayer
Catalogue numbers 23–53

Toward a New Naturalism: Sixteenth Century Painting in Cremona and Milan
Essay by Giulio Bora

"Diversi Personagii Molto Ridiculosi:" A Contract for Cremonese Market Scenes
Robert S. Miller
Catalogue numbers 54–100

The Painters of Reality: Art in Brescia and Bergamo After the Age of Caravaggio
Essay by Enrico De Pascale
Catalogue numbers 101–116

Artists' Biographies
Andaleeb Badiee Banta

Bibliography
Index
Photograph Credits

Met Art in Publication

Girl with Cherries, Marco d'Oggiono Italian, Oil on wood
Girl with Cherries
ca. 1491–95
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, Andrea Solario Italian, Oil on wood
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
ca. 1507–9
A Bear Walking, Leonardo da Vinci Italian, silverpoint on light buff prepared paper
A Bear Walking
ca. 1482–85
Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left, Leonardo da Vinci Italian, Pen and brown ink, over soft black chalk
Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left
1490–94
A Grotesque Couple: Old Woman with an Elaborate Headdress and Old Man with Large Ears and Lacking a Chin, Giovanni Francesco Melzi Italian, Pen and brown ink
A Grotesque Couple: Old Woman with an Elaborate Headdress and Old Man with Large Ears and Lacking a Chin
1491/93–1570
Bust of a Bearded Figure, Andrea Solario Italian, Black, red, and ochre chalk on light brown paper (with later, substantive reintegration of the support and drawing surface along the right edges and upper portions of the sheet; detached from canvas support in 1958)
Bust of a Bearded Figure
1515–24
The Flagellation; (reverse) The Madonna of Mercy, Girolamo Romanino Italian, Distemper and oil(?) on canvas
The Flagellation; (reverse) The Madonna of Mercy
ca. 1540
The Entombment, Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) Italian, Oil on canvas
The Entombment
1554
Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558), Giovanni Battista Moroni Italian, Oil on canvas
Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558)
1557
Saint Matthew and the Angel, Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo Italian, Oil on canvas
Saint Matthew and the Angel
Concert champêtre, Girolamo Romanino Italian, Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk.
Concert champêtre
ca. 1520–30
Study of a Head, Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo Italian, Black chalk on blue paper, highlighted with white
Study of a Head
ca. 1508–18
Two Children Teasing a Cat, Annibale Carracci Italian, Oil on canvas
Two Children Teasing a Cat
Saint Charles Borromeo, Giovanni Battista Crespi ("Il Cerano") Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on brown-washed paper
Saint Charles Borromeo
1575–1662
Studies for an Angel in Glory, Antonio d'Enrico Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo) Italian, Red chalk on off-white laid paper washed pale ochre; main study squared for transfer
Studies for an Angel in Glory
1575–1633
Landscape with Mountains, Antonio d'Enrico Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo) Italian, Red chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on pink prepared paper
Landscape with Mountains
n.d.

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Bayer, Andrea, Mina Gregori, Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, eds. 2004. Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy ; [in Conjunction with the Exhibition “Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy”, Held at the Museo Civico “Ala Ponzone”, Cremona, from February 14 through May 2, 2004 and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from May 27 through August 15, 2004]. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art [u.a.].