Com cuts
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
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What is Baroque?
Erwin Panofsky
2
The Idea of the Painter, the Sculptor and the Architect
Giovan Pietro Bdlori
22
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Fighting with Style
Philip Sohm
34
4
Bernini's Conception of the Visual Arts: "Un Bel Composto"
Irving Lavin
51
5
Ars Tornandi: Baroque Architecture and the Lathe
Joseph Connors
57
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A Taste for Tiepolo
Svetlana Alpers and Michael Baxandall
65
Part II
7
Artistic Practice, Production
and Consumption
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Practice in the Carracci Academy
Gail Feigenbaum
87
8
Artemisia in Her Father's House
Patrizia Cavazzini
98
9
Disegni, Bozzetti, Legnetti and Modelli in Roman
Seicento Sculpture
Jennifer Montagu
113
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Architects and Clods: The Emergence of Urban Planning
in the Context of Palace Architecture in Seventeenth-Century
Rome
Dorothy Metzjjer Habel
11
The Mechanics of Seventeenth-Century Patronage
Francis Haskell
12
Scrambling for Scudi: Notes on Painters"1 Earnings in Early
Baroque Rome
Richard E, Spear
120
133
151
13
The Marketing of Pietro Testa's "Poetic Inventions"
Franc esc a Consagra
169
14
Inside the Palace: People and Furnishings
Patricia Waddy
178
Part III Meaning: Conceived and Received
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195
A Comment on the Iconography of Pietro da Cortona's
Barberini Ceiling
Walter Vitzthum
201
Seeing the Shroud: Guarini's Reliquary Chapel in Turin and
the Ostension of a Dynastic Relic
John Beldon Scott
209
Myth and the New Science: Vico, Tiepolo, and the Language
of the Optimates
Christopher Drew Armstrong
230
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Problems of the Theme
Rudolf Wittkower
19
Devotion and Desire: The Reliquary Chapel of Maria
Maddalena cie'Pazzi
Karen-Edis Barztnan
265
Pastoralism in the Roman Baroque Villa and in Claude Lorrain:
Myths and Realities of the Roman Campagna
Mirk a- Benes
283
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Part IV Critique of the Past and the New Science
21
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The Role of Classical Models in Bernini's and Poussin's
Preparatory Work
Rudolf Wittkower
251
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305
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I he Greek Style and flu; Prehistory of Xcociassicism
Charles Dcmpsey
23
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Contents
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« ^ i and Francesco Bianchini: Capricci in r h c Service of
IVe-scientific Archaeo!ou\Susan M. Dixon
326
Cigoli's Immacolatn and Galileo's Moon: Astronomy and the
Virgin in Early Seieento Rome
Steven F. Ostrow
339
I lie tate of Pictures: Appearance, Truth, and Ambiguity
David Freedbcrq
361
Lodoli on Function and Representation
372
Joseph Rykwcrt
Index
384
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