Vincenzo Campi’s Ricotta Eaters (c.1585) : viewership and the early modern market

This thesis examines Vincenzo Campi's painting Ricotta Eaters (c.1585) in order to provoke questions about the practice of viewing and its relationship to an emerging art market. Ricotta Eaters draws on familiar types and narratives from genre painting and is usually interpreted as a comic, but...

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Main Author: Nguyen, Kim-Ly Thi
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16775