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Italian Baroque Art
Susan M. Dixon (Edited by), SM Dixon (Author)
9781405139670, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 1 August 2008
416 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 2.2 cm, 0.717 kg
"Scholarly and thorough." [Four star rating] Art Times "Old classics and new team up in this exciting anthology that will serve students and scholars alike for years to come. The Seicento field is not only represented here by broad discussions of style, art theory, and patronage but also by fascinating case studies of artistic practice, gender, science, and the art market . . . A shot of adrenalin for this important area of art history." David M. Stone, University of Delaware "Those of us working in baroque studies are lucky to have some of the best scholars and essayists in the discipline of art history writing about European, and specifically Italian, art of the 17th and 18th centuries; we are doubly lucky that Susan Dixon has gathered together so many of them for this volume." Vernon Hyde-Minor, University of Colorado at Boulder
This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian art from 1600-1750, highlighting the key debates with which art historians continue to grapple.
List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiv Part I Appearances 1 1 What is Baroque? 7 2 The Idea of the Painter, the Sculptor and the Architect 22 3 Fighting with Style 34 4 Bernini’s Conception of the Visual Arts: “Un Bel Composto” 51 5 Ars Tornandi: Baroque Architecture and the Lathe 57 6 A Taste for Tiepolo 65 Part II Artistic Practice, Production and Consumption 81 7 Practice in the Carracci Academy 87 8 Artemisia in Her Father’s House 98 9 Disegni, Bozzetti, Legnetti and Modelli in Roman Seicento Sculpture 113 10 Architects and Clods: The Emergence of Urban Planning in the Context of Palace Architecture in Seventeenth-Century Rome 120 11 The Mechanics of Seventeenth-Century Patronage 133 12 Scrambling for Scudi: Notes on Painters’ Earnings in Early Baroque Rome 151 13 The Marketing of Pietro Testa’s “Poetic Inventions” 169 14 Inside the Palace: People and Furnishings 178 Part III Meaning: Conceived and Received 195 15 A Comment on the Iconography of Pietro da Cortona’s Barberini Ceiling 201 16 Seeing the Shroud: Guarini’s Reliquary Chapel in Turin and the Ostension of a Dynastic Relic 209 17 Myth and the New Science: Vico, Tiepolo, and the Language of the Optimates 230 18 Problems of the Theme 251 19 Devotion and Desire: The Reliquary Chapel of Maria Maddalena de’Pazzi 265 20 Pastoralism in the Roman Baroque Villa and in Claude Lorrain: Myths and Realities of the Roman Campagna 283 Part IV Critique of the Past and the New Science 299 21 The Role of Classical Models in Bernini’s and Poussin’s Preparatory Work 305 22 The Greek Style and the Prehistory of Neoclassicism 311 23 Piranesi and Francesco Bianchini: Capricci in the Service of Pre-scientific Archaeology 326 24 Cigoli’s Immacolata and Galileo’s Moon: Astronomy and the Virgin in Early Seicento Rome 339 25 The Fate of Pictures: Appearance, Truth, and Ambiguity 361 26 Lodoli on Function and Representation 372 Index 384
Erwin Panofsky
Giovan Pietro Bellori
Philip Sohm
Irving Lavin
Joseph Connors
Svetlana Alpers and Michael Baxandall
Gail Feigenbaum
Patrizia Cavazzini
Jennifer Montagu
Dorothy Metzger Habel
Francis Haskell
Richard E. Spear
Francesca Consagra
Patricia Waddy
Walter Vitzthum
John Beldon Scott
Christopher Drew Armstrong
Rudolf Wittkower
Karen-Edis Barzman
Mirka Beneš
Rudolf Wittkower
Charles Dempsey
Susan M. Dixon
Steven F. Ostrow
David Freedberg
Joseph Rykwert
Subject Areas: Art treatments & subjects [AG]
