Italian Baroque Art

Name: Italian Baroque Art
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ISBN: 9781405139670

ISBN-10: 1405139676

ISBN-13: 9781405139670

Edition: 2008

Authors: Susan M. Dixon

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Bringing together important classic and recent secondary literature on the art of Italy, c. 1600-1780, this title examines many of the major artistic themes and issues that scholars in the field continue to grapple with, and that characterize this especially rich, if turbulent, period in the development of art history.

Book details

List price: $71.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English




Appearances



What is Baroque?




The Idea of the Painter, the Sculptor and the Architect




Fighting with Style




Bernini's Conception of the Visual Arts: 'Un Bel Composto'




Ars Tornandi: Baroque Architecture and the Lathe




A Taste for Tiepolo




Artistic Practice, Production and Consumption



Practice in the Carracci Academy




Artemisia in Her Father's House




Disegni, Bozzetti, Legnetti and Modelli in Roman Seicento Sculpture




Architects and Clods: The Emergence of Urban Planning in the Context of Palace Architecture in Seventeenth-Century Rome




The Mechanics of Seventeenth-Century Patronage




Scrambling for Scudi: Notes on Painters' Earnings in Early Baroque Rome




The Marketing of Pietro Testa's Poetic Inventions




Inside the Palace: People and Furnishings




Meaning: Conceived and Received



A Comment on the Iconography of Pietro da Cortona's Barberini Ceiling




Seeing the Shroud: Guarini's Reliquary Chapel in Turin and the Ostentation of a Dynastic Relic




Myth and the New Science: Vico, Tiepolo, and the Language of the Optimates




Problems of the Theme




Devotion and Desire: The Reliquary Chapel of Maria Maddalena de'Pazzi




Pastoralism in the Roman Baroque Villa and in Claude Lorrain




Critique of the Past and the New Science



The Role of Classical Models in Bernini's and Poussin's Preparatory Work




The Greek Style and the Prehistory of Neoclassicism




Piranesi and Francesco Bianchini: Capricci in the Service of Pre-Scientific Archaeology




Cigoli's Immacolata and Galileo's Moon: Astronomy and the Virgin in Early Seicento Rome




The Fate of Pictures: Appearance, Truth, and Ambiguity




Lodoli on Function and Representation