Overview

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

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Author:   Susan M. Dixon (University of Tulsa)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.717kg
ISBN:  

9781405139670

ISBN 10:   1405139676
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   01 August 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiv Part I Appearances 1 1 What is Baroque? 7 Erwin Panofsky 2 The Idea of the Painter, the Sculptor and the Architect 22 Giovan Pietro Bellori 3 Fighting with Style 34 Philip Sohm 4 Bernini’s Conception of the Visual Arts: “Un Bel Composto” 51 Irving Lavin 5 Ars Tornandi: Baroque Architecture and the Lathe 57 Joseph Connors 6 A Taste for Tiepolo 65 Svetlana Alpers and Michael Baxandall Part II Artistic Practice, Production and Consumption 81 7 Practice in the Carracci Academy 87 Gail Feigenbaum 8 Artemisia in Her Father’s House 98 Patrizia Cavazzini 9 Disegni, Bozzetti, Legnetti and Modelli in Roman Seicento Sculpture 113 Jennifer Montagu 10 Architects and Clods: The Emergence of Urban Planning in the Context of Palace Architecture in Seventeenth-Century Rome 120 Dorothy Metzger Habel 11 The Mechanics of Seventeenth-Century Patronage 133 Francis Haskell 12 Scrambling for Scudi: Notes on Painters’ Earnings in Early Baroque Rome 151 Richard E. Spear 13 The Marketing of Pietro Testa’s “Poetic Inventions” 169 Francesca Consagra 14 Inside the Palace: People and Furnishings 178 Patricia Waddy Part III Meaning: Conceived and Received 195 15 A Comment on the Iconography of Pietro da Cortona’s Barberini Ceiling 201 Walter Vitzthum 16 Seeing the Shroud: Guarini’s Reliquary Chapel in Turin and the Ostension of a Dynastic Relic 209 John Beldon Scott 17 Myth and the New Science: Vico, Tiepolo, and the Language of the Optimates 230 Christopher Drew Armstrong 18 Problems of the Theme 251 Rudolf Wittkower 19 Devotion and Desire: The Reliquary Chapel of Maria Maddalena de’Pazzi 265 Karen-Edis Barzman 20 Pastoralism in the Roman Baroque Villa and in Claude Lorrain: Myths and Realities of the Roman Campagna 283 Mirka Beneš 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 Rudolf Wittkower 22 The Greek Style and the Prehistory of Neoclassicism 311 Charles Dempsey 23 Piranesi and Francesco Bianchini: Capricci in the Service of Pre-scientific Archaeology 326 Susan M. Dixon 24 Cigoli’s Immacolata and Galileo’s Moon: Astronomy and the Virgin in Early Seicento Rome 339 Steven F. Ostrow 25 The Fate of Pictures: Appearance, Truth, and Ambiguity 361 David Freedberg 26 Lodoli on Function and Representation 372 Joseph Rykwert Index 384

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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

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

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Susan M. Dixon is Associate Professor of Art History at University of Tulsa, Okalahoma.

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