Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting

by Malcolm Bull

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How the philosophy of Giambattista Vico was influenced by eighteenth-century Neopolitan painting

Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena, Vico concluded that human truth was a product...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691138842

ISBN13:9780691138848

Release Date:December 2013

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:160 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Art Arts, Music & Photography History Philosophy

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