Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting

by Malcolm Bull

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"