A Superb Baroque - by Jonathan Bober & Piero Boccardo & Franco Boggero & Peter Lukehart & Andrea Zanini (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The legendary splendor of Genoese baroque art</b> <p/>Genoa completed its transformation from a faded maritime power into a thriving banking center for Europe in the seventeenth century. The wealth accumulated by its leading families spurred investment in the visual arts on an enormous scale. This volume explores how artists both foreign and native created a singularly rich and extravagant expression of the baroque in works of extraordinary variety, sumptuousness, and exuberance. This art, however, has remained largely hidden behind the facades of the city's palaces, with few works, apart from those by the school's great expatriates, found beyond its borders. As a result, the Genoese baroque has been insufficiently considered or appreciated. <p/>Lavishly illustrated, <i>A Superb Baroque</i> is comprehensive, encompassing all the major media and participants. Presented are some 140 select works by the celebrated foreigners drawn to the city and its flourishing environment--from Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Giulio Cesare Procaccini to Pierre Puget, Marcantonio Franceschini, and Francesco Solimena; by the major Genoese masters active for much of their careers in other settings--Bernardo Strozzi, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Filippo Parodi, and Alessandro Magnasco; and above all by the brilliantly synthetic but unfamiliar masters who worked primarily in Genoa itself--Gioacchino Assereto, Valerio Castello, Domenico Piola, and Gregorio De Ferrari. Offering three levels of exploration--essays that frame and interpret, section introductions that characterize principal currents and stages, and texts that elucidate individual works--this volume is by far the most extensive study of the Genoese baroque in the English language. <p/>Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC <p/><b>Exhibition Schedule</b><br>Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome<br>March 4-June 19, 2022</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Lush illustrations and readable text unfurl a surprising artistic pluralism.<b>---Christopher Knight, <i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jonathan Bober</b> is the Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Art. <b>Piero Boccardo</b> is superintendent of collections for the City of Genoa. <b>Franco Boggero</b> is director of historic and artistic heritage at the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio, Genoa. <b>Peter M. Lukehart</b> is associate dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. <b>Andrea Zanini</b> is associate professor of economic history at the University of Genoa.
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