Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750, Volumes 1-3
This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes. Wittkower's text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliography. This edition-now...
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This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes. Wittkower's text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliography. This edition-now published in three volumes-will also include color illustrations for the first time.
ForewordsVIPrinciples followed in the New EditionVIIMapVIII1.IntroductionISeicento Devotion and Religious ImageryRhetoric and Baroque ProcedurePatronage2.Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)5Introduction5Sculpture6Stylistic DevelopmentSculpture with One and Many ViewsColour and LightThe Transcending of Traditional ModesNew Iconographical TypesThe Role of the 'Concetto'Working ProcedurePainting22Architecture23Ecclesiastical BuildingsSecular BuildingsThe Piazza of St Peter's3.Francesco Borromini (1599-1667)39S. Carlo alle Quattro FontaneS. Ivo della SapienzaS. Giovanni in Laterano, S. Agnese, S. Andrea delle Fratte, and Minor Ecclesiastical WorksThe Oratory of St Philip NeriDomestic BuildingsThe Collegio di Propaganda Fide4.Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669)63Introduction63Architecture63The Early WorksS.S. Martina e LucaS. Maria della Pace, S. Maria in Via Lata, Projects, and Minor WorksPainting and Decoration74The Early WorksThe Gran Salone of the Palazzo BarberiniThe Frescoes of the Palazzo Pitti and the Late Work5.'High Baroque Classicism': Sacchi, Algardi, and Duquesnoy85Andrea Sacchi (1599-1661)85The Controversy between Sacchi and CortonaAlessandro Algardi (1598-1654)88Francesco Duquesnoy (1597-1643)946.Architectural Currents of the High Baroque99Rome99Carlo RainaldiMartino Loughi the Younger, Vincenzo della Greca, Antonio del Grande, and Giovan Antonio de' RossiArchitecture outside Rome110Baldassare Longhena (1598-1682)Florence and Naples: Silvani and Fanzago7.Trends in High Baroque Sculpture121Rome121The First GenerationThe Second GenerationTombs with the Effigy in PrayerMinor Masters of the later Seventeenth CenturyBernini's Studio and the Position of Sculptors in RomeSculpture outside Rome1328.High Baroque Painting and its Aftermath134Rome134Baroque Classicism; Archaizing Classicism; Crypto-RomanticismThe Great Fresco CyclesCarlo Maratti (1625-1713)Painting outside Rome147Bologna, Florence, Venice, and LombardyGenoaNaplesAbbreviations Used in the Notes168Notes169Index184
