Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750; Volume 2: The High Baroque, 1625-1675

, by Rudolf Wittkower; Revised by Jennifer Montague and Joseph Connors

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ISBN: 9780300079401 | 0300079400
Cover: Trade Paper
Copyright: 10/11/1999

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Forewords	p. VI
Principles followed in the New Edition	p. VII
Map	p. VIII
Introduction	p. 1
Seicento Devotion and Religious Imagery
Rhetoric and Baroque Procedure
Patronage
Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)	p. 5
Introduction	p. 5
Sculpture	p. 6
Stylistic Development
Sculpture with One and Many Views
Colour and Light
The Transcending of Traditional Modes
New Iconographical Types
The Role of the 'Concetto'
Working Procedure
Painting	p. 22
Architecture	p. 23
Ecclesiastical Buildings
Secular Buildings
The Piazza of St Peter's
Francesco Borromini (1599-1667)	p. 39
S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
S. Ivo della Sapienza
S. Giovanni in Laterano, S. Agnese, S. Andrea delle Fratte, and Minor Ecclesiastical Works
The Oratory of St Philip Neri
Domestic Buildings
The Collegio di Propaganda Fide
Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669)	p. 63
Introduction	p. 63
Architecture	p. 63
The Early Works
SS. Martina e Luca
S. Maria della Pace, S. Maria in Via Lata, Projects, and Minor Works
Painting and Decoration	p. 74
The Early Works
The Gran Salone of the Palazzo Barberini
The Frescoes of the Palazzo Pitti and the Late Work
'High Baroque Classicism': Sacchi, Algardi, and Duquesnoy	p. 85
Andrea Sacchi (1599-1661)	p. 85
The Controversy between Sacchi and Cortona
Alessandro Algardi (1598-1654)	p. 88
Francesco Duquesnoy (1597-1643)	p. 94
Architectural Currents of the High Baroque	p. 99
Rome	p. 99
Carlo Rainaldi
Martino Longhi the Younger, Vincenzo della Greca, Antonio del Grande, and Giovan Antonio de' Rossi
Architecture outside Rome	p. 110
Baldassare Longhena (1598-1682)
Florence and Naples: Silvani and Fanzago
Trends in High Baroque Sculpture	p. 121
Rome	p. 121
The First Generation
The Second Generation
Tombs with the Effigy in Prayer
Minor Masters of the later Seventeenth Century
Bernini's Studio and the Position of Sculptors in Rome
Sculpture outside Rome	p. 132
High Baroque Painting and its Aftermath	p. 134
Rome	p. 134
Baroque Classicism; Archaizing Classicism; Crypto-Romanticism
The Great Fresco Cycles
Carlo Maratti (1625-1713)
Painting outside Rome	p. 147
Bologna, Florence, Venice, and Lombardy
Genoa
Naples
Abbreviations Used in the Notes	p. 168
Notes	p. 169
Index	p. 184
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Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750; Volume 2: The High Baroque, 1625-1675

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