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This volume compiles Richard Spear's influential research on Baroque painting, covering various aspects and artists of the 17th century. It also includes reflections on the state of art history res...
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A prominent scholar of Baroque painting, Richard Spear has explored a wide range of cultural, iconographic, connoisseurial, and conservation problems in his publications, many of which arose from two of his earliest research projects: organization of an international loan-exhibition, Caravaggio and His Followers, and his dissertation on the Bolognese painter, Domenichino, which resulted in a two-volume monograph with catalogue raisonné. His directorship of the Oberlin College museum strengthened his view that the work of art is the essential fact of inquiry, regardless of the approaches he has taken to interpreting the art of Domenichino, Guido Reni, Guercino, Artemisia Gentileschi, Georges de La Tour, and Poussin, among other 17th-century artists.

As Editor-in-Chief of the Art Bulletin (1985-88) he commissioned essays on "the state of research" in Western art history, whose varied methodologies and interdisciplinarity underpin his recent writings, notably The "Divine" Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni.

This volume brings together more than thirty of Richard Spear's most important articles and selected chapters from his main books, organized in three sections, Caravaggio and Caravaggism, Italy and France, and Bolognese Painters. The author provides important addenda and retrospective critical reflections on each of the essays.
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Price: £30.00
Pages: 630
Publisher: Pindar Press
Imprint: Pindar Press
Publication Date: 31 December 2002
ISBN: 9781899828869
Format: Paperback
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ART / History / Baroque & Rococo, History of art

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Richard Spear is a prominent scholar of Baroque painting who explored a wide range of cultural, iconographic, connoisseurial, and conservation problems in his publications. He was Director of the Oberlin College museum and was Editor-in-Chief of the Art Bulletin (1985-88).
Caravaggio and Caravaggism: Caravaggio and His Followers

Caravaggisti at the Palazzo Pitti

'The International Caravaggesque Movement' by Benedict Nicolson

Stocktaking in Caravaggio Studies

The Critical Fortune of a Realist Painter

Leonardo, Raphael, and Caravaggio

Artemisia Gentileschi: Ten Years of Fact and Fiction

Caravaggio's 'Death of the Virgin' by Pamela Askew

Saints and Sinners

Italy and France: Baciccio's Pendant Paintings of 'Venus and Adonis'

Baciccio's 'Venus and Adonis': A Postscript

Studies in Conservation and Connoisseurship: Problematic Paintings by Manfredi, Saraceni and Guercino

Johann Liss Reconsidered

Princeton: Italian Baroque Paintings

Notes on Naples in the Seicento

The Literary Sources of Poussin's 'Realm of Flora'

On the Relationship between Subject and Decorative Modes in Baroque Fresco Cycles

A New Book on La Tour

'The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century' by Christopher Wright

Reni contre Dominiquin dans la littérature d'art française du XVIIe siècle

Bolognese Painters: Domenichino and the Farnese 'Loggia del Giardino'

Preparatory Drawings by Domenichino

The Cappella della Strada Cupa: a Forgotten Domenichino Chapel

Bolognese Paintings in Florence

A Forgotten Landscape Painter: Giovanni Battista Viola

Domenichino's Artistic Personality

Plagiary or Reinterpretation

Domenichino Addenda

Re-viewing the 'Divine Guido'

Guercino's 'Prix-fixe': Observations on Studio Practices and Art Marketing in Emilia

"Martyr", "Mary Magdalene" and "Di sua mano" from 'The "Divine" Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni'

Guido's Grace

Additional Notes

Index