Italian Baroque Art
Blackwell Anthologies in Art History
1. Edition August 2008
416 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-1-4051-3966-3
John Wiley & Sons
This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian
art from 1600-1750, highlighting the key debates with which art
historians continue to grapple.
* * Explores themes including: style or the visuality of art;
artistic practices and production; artistic communication as
projected and experienced; and artists' interactions with the
ancient world and with the new sciences
* Examines the work of key painters, architects and sculptors
from this period, including Caravaggio, Bernini, Guarini and
Poussin
* Published in the expanding Blackwell Anthologies in Art
History series
Part I: Appearances.
1. What is Baroque? (Erwin Panofsky).
2. The Idea of the Painter, the Sculptor and the Architect
(Pietro Bellori Giovan).
3. Fighting with Style (Phillip Sohm).
4. Bernini's Conception of the Visual Arts: 'Un Bel
Composto' (Irving Lavin).
5. Ars Tornandi: Baroque Architecture and the Lathe (Joseph
Connors).
6. A Taste for Tiepolo (Alpers, Svetlana and Michael
Baxandall).
Part II: Artistic Practice, Production and
Consumption.
7. Practice in the Carracci Academy (Gail
Feigenbaum).
8. Artemisia in Her Father's House (Patrizia
Cavazzini).
9. Disegni, Bozzetti, Legnetti and Modelli in Roman Seicento
Sculpture (Jennifer Montagu).
10. Architects and Clods: The Emergence of Urban Planning in the
Context of Palace Architecture in Seventeenth-Century Rome
(Dorothy Metzger Habel).
11. The Mechanics of Seventeenth-Century Patronage (Francis
Haskell).
12. Scrambling for Scudi: Notes on Painters' Earnings in
Early Baroque Rome (Richard Spear).
13. The Marketing of Pietro Testa's Poetic Inventions
(Francesco Consagra).
14.Inside the Palace: People and Furnishings (Patricia
Waddy).
Part III: Meaning: Conceived and Received.
15. A Comment on the Iconography of Pietro da Cortona's
Barberini Ceiling (Walter Vitzthum).
16.Seeing the Shroud: Guarini's Reliquary Chapel in Turin
and the Ostentation of a Dynastic Relic (John Beldon
Scott).
17. Myth and the New Science: Vico, Tiepolo, and the Language of
the Optimates (Christopher Drew Armstrong).
18.Problems of the Theme (Rudolf Wittkower).
19. Devotion and Desire: The Reliquary Chapel of Maria Maddalena
de'Pazzi (Karen-Edis Barzman).
20. Pastoralism in the Roman Baroque Villa and in Claude Lorrain
(Myths and Realities of the Roman Campagna: Mirka
Benes).
Part IV: Critique of the Past and the New Science.
21. The Role of Classical Models in Bernini's and Poussin's
Preparatory Work (Rudolf Wittkower).
22. The Greek Style and the Prehistory of Neoclassicism
(Charles Dempsey).
23. Piranesi and Francesco Bianchini: Capricci in the
Service of Pre-Scientific Archaeology (Susan M. Dixon).
24. Cigoli's Immacolata and Galileo's Moon: Astronomy and the
Virgin in Early Seicento Rome (Steven F. Ostrow).
25. The Fate of Pictures: Appearance, Truth, and Ambiguity
(David Freedberg).
26. Lodoli on Function and Representation (Joseph
Rykwert).
1. What is Baroque? (Erwin Panofsky).
2. The Idea of the Painter, the Sculptor and the Architect
(Pietro Bellori Giovan).
3. Fighting with Style (Phillip Sohm).
4. Bernini's Conception of the Visual Arts: 'Un Bel
Composto' (Irving Lavin).
5. Ars Tornandi: Baroque Architecture and the Lathe (Joseph
Connors).
6. A Taste for Tiepolo (Alpers, Svetlana and Michael
Baxandall).
Part II: Artistic Practice, Production and
Consumption.
7. Practice in the Carracci Academy (Gail
Feigenbaum).
8. Artemisia in Her Father's House (Patrizia
Cavazzini).
9. Disegni, Bozzetti, Legnetti and Modelli in Roman Seicento
Sculpture (Jennifer Montagu).
10. Architects and Clods: The Emergence of Urban Planning in the
Context of Palace Architecture in Seventeenth-Century Rome
(Dorothy Metzger Habel).
11. The Mechanics of Seventeenth-Century Patronage (Francis
Haskell).
12. Scrambling for Scudi: Notes on Painters' Earnings in
Early Baroque Rome (Richard Spear).
13. The Marketing of Pietro Testa's Poetic Inventions
(Francesco Consagra).
14.Inside the Palace: People and Furnishings (Patricia
Waddy).
Part III: Meaning: Conceived and Received.
15. A Comment on the Iconography of Pietro da Cortona's
Barberini Ceiling (Walter Vitzthum).
16.Seeing the Shroud: Guarini's Reliquary Chapel in Turin
and the Ostentation of a Dynastic Relic (John Beldon
Scott).
17. Myth and the New Science: Vico, Tiepolo, and the Language of
the Optimates (Christopher Drew Armstrong).
18.Problems of the Theme (Rudolf Wittkower).
19. Devotion and Desire: The Reliquary Chapel of Maria Maddalena
de'Pazzi (Karen-Edis Barzman).
20. Pastoralism in the Roman Baroque Villa and in Claude Lorrain
(Myths and Realities of the Roman Campagna: Mirka
Benes).
Part IV: Critique of the Past and the New Science.
21. The Role of Classical Models in Bernini's and Poussin's
Preparatory Work (Rudolf Wittkower).
22. The Greek Style and the Prehistory of Neoclassicism
(Charles Dempsey).
23. Piranesi and Francesco Bianchini: Capricci in the
Service of Pre-Scientific Archaeology (Susan M. Dixon).
24. Cigoli's Immacolata and Galileo's Moon: Astronomy and the
Virgin in Early Seicento Rome (Steven F. Ostrow).
25. The Fate of Pictures: Appearance, Truth, and Ambiguity
(David Freedberg).
26. Lodoli on Function and Representation (Joseph
Rykwert).
"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
"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
Susan M. Dixon is Associate Professor of Art History at University of Tulsa, Okalahoma.
