A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750 by Bober, Jonathan

A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750

The legendary splendor of Genoese baroque art Genoa completed its transformation from a faded maritime power into...
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A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750 by Bober, Jonathan

A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750

$147.23

A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750

$147.23
Author: Jonathan Bober
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The legendary splendor of Genoese baroque art

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.

Lavishly illustrated, A Superb Baroque 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.

Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Exhibition Schedule
Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
March 4-June 19, 2022

Author: Jonathan Bober, Piero Boccardo, Franco Boggero
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 04/28/2020
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 5.40lbs
Size: 11.70h x 10.10w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780691206516


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2020

About the Author
Jonathan Bober is the Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Art. Piero Boccardo is superintendent of collections for the City of Genoa. Franco Boggero is director of historic and artistic heritage at the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio, Genoa. Peter M. Lukehart is associate dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Andrea Zanini is associate professor of economic history at the University of Genoa.

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