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[email protected] warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications NATURALISM AND THE PICARESQUE IN JUSEPE DE RIBERA’S WORK Volume One of two volumes (Text) by Carlo Avilio Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Art at the University of Warwick This thesis may not be photocopied University of Warwick, Department of the History of Art September 2016 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS i DECLARATION iii ABSTRACT iv LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS v Introduction. Ribera: The ‘Picaresque’ in an age of experimentalism 1 Chapter 1 The Picaresque Rhetoric: Devices and Themes of a New Genre of Comedy 14 1.1 Trajectory of the Picaresque Genre 14 1.2 Heraclitus or Democritus? Themes and Strategies of a Genre 25 1.3 A Neapolitan Picaresque? 40 Chapter 2 Experimentalism and the Senses in Early Seventeenth-Century Rome and Naples 58 2.1 The Alleged Pre-Eminence of Sight in Seventeenth-Century Science 58 2.2 The ‘Collaboration of the Senses’ in the Lyncean’s Treatise ‘Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus’ (1611-1651) 64 Chapter 3 Ribera’s Five Senses: The Paragone