Art in Rome

in the Eighteenth Century

Merrell 2000

Stron 628, duży format: 23x29 cm

Książka sporych rozmiarów i wagi.

Renomowane wydawnictwo artystyczne - wartościowe studium dla badacza sztuki

Papier kredowy , ponad 450 ilustracji z komentarzem.

Jeden z egzemplarzy jest zafoliowany!

CAUGHT BETWEEN THE THEATRICALITY OF THE BAROQUE

and the acute sensibility of Romanticism, art in Rome in the eighteenth century has long been a neglected area of study. Yet during this period the city remained as much the center of the art world as it had been during the High Renaissance. As such, it attracted a steady stream of visitors, aristocratic northern Europeans making the Grand Tour. Of course the presence in the city of so many wealthy travelers provided aspiring artists with irresistible opportunities for patronage and, eventually, fame. But there was also the chance to study at first hand the culture of antiquity, and the lure of the past became increasingly powerful as the century progressed and archaeology provided ever more inspiring images of the classical ideal. All this transpired within an unparalleled academic environment, where drafts­manship was respected as nowhere else, in institutions such as the Accademia di San Luca and the French Academy at Rome. There was also the allure of the mysterious Accademia dellArcadia, which sought to promote an image of the artist as heir to a simple, pastoral tradition, and to which many of the leading figures of the time—artists, clerics, and potentates— belonged.

It was in this stimulating environment that Italian artists such as Maratti, Canova, Piranesi, and Batoni, and foreigners such as David, Flaxman, Fuseli, Kauffmann, and Sergei secured their reputations. The result was a fantastic outpouring of art in all media— oil and fresco, bronze and marble, silver and mosaic, jewelry and furniture—produced to embellish the city's churches, palaces, fountains, piazzas, gardens, and galleries, as well as for export to the stately homes of the visiting aristocrats. The grand scale and spectacular diversity of the period are comprehensively captured for the first time in this definitive history of the period, produced to accompany a major U.S. exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and documenting the work of over 150 artists. With over 450 illustrations, and texts by an outstanding array of experts from around the world, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century provides a massively authoritative survey of a fascinating era.