Italian Baroque Art

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

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

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
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