Research Catalog

Title

A superb Baroque : art in Genoa, 1600-1750 / Jonathan Bober, Piero Boccardo, Franco Boggero.

Author

Bober, Jonathan

Publication

• Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Princeton, NJ : in association with Princeton University Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Boccardo, Piero
• Boggero, Franco
• National Gallery of Art (U.S.), issuing body, host institution.
• Scuderie Papali al Quirinale, host institution.

Description

xiii, 370 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

"In the seventeenth century, Genoa completed its transformation from a faded maritime power of feuding old families into the banking center of Europe with a functioning republican government. Accumulating enormous wealth, the leading Genoese turned to cultural investment. The first stage in this artistic development, which took place over the second half of the sixteenth century, had seen the emergence of a distinctive indigenous style. Building on that foundation, Genoese artists and their patrons created an art of extraordinary material sumptuousness, visual splendor, and exuberant feeling - a singularly rich and beautiful expression of baroque style. The catalog and exhibition at the National Gallery of Art - the first of Genoese baroque art in the United States - include works in all major media: painting, sculpture, decorative arts, drawings, and prints. A Superb Baroque features seventy paintings, the area of greatest production and innovation, with choice works by the school's few well-known painters, including Bernardo Strozzi, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, and Alessandro Magnasco. Key works by the principal non-Genoese Italians and foreigners drawn to the city's flourishing environ-ment - Rubens, Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Orazio Gentileschi, Van Dyck, Francesco Solimena - are also presented. Approximately fifteen sculptures provide a counterpoint to the paintings, including several full-size statues by the principal figures - Pierre Puget, Filippo Parodi, Anton Maria Maragliano - as well as terracotta sketches and smaller-scale repetitions of monumental groups. The decorative arts are represented by fifteen of the finest examples, from spectacular ceremonial silver objects to lavish gilt furniture and furnishings. Some seventy choice drawings and prints, most by the same artists as the paintings and objects, are included"--

Subject

• Art, Baroque > Italy > Genoa > Exhibitions
• Art > Italy > Genoa > History > Exhibitions
• Art > Italy > History > Exhibitions
• Art
• Art, Baroque
• Italy
• Italy > Genoa

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• "The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, with special cooperation from the City and Museums of Genoa. The exhibition and catalog are made possible by the Robert Lehman Foundation"--Colophon.
• Exhibition dates: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA, 2020 May 3-August 16; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy, 2020 October 3-2021 January 10.--Colophon.
• "Translations by Jonathan Bober, Andrew Ellis, and Maximillian Hernandez ... and Lukehart."--Page 370.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQF 21-458

ISBN

• 0691206511
• 9780691206516

LCCN

2020930277

OCLC

1137183380

Author

Bober, Jonathan, author.

Title

A superb Baroque : art in Genoa, 1600-1750 / Jonathan Bober, Piero Boccardo, Franco Boggero.

Publisher

Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Princeton, NJ : in association with Princeton University Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

EXHIB: NATL. GALLERY OF ART, 5/3-8/16/20. EXAMINES 140 WORKS ACROSS VARIOUS MEDIA. SUBSTANTIAL TEXT.

Added Author

Boccardo, Piero, author.

Boggero, Franco, author.

National Gallery of Art (U.S.), issuing body, host institution.

Scuderie Papali al Quirinale, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-458