A Superb Baroque

Art in Genoa, 1600–1750

Jonathan Bober, Piero Boccardo, Franco Boggero , Peter Lukehart

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Princeton University Press
28 April 2020

Art & design styles: Baroque

The legendary splendor of Genoese baroque artGenoa 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, DCExhibition ScheduleNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DCMay 3-August 16, 2020 [Delayed]Scuderie del Quirinale, RomeOctober 3, 2020-January 10, 2021

By: Jonathan Bober, Piero Boccardo, Franco Boggero, Peter Lukehart, Andrea Zanini
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 292mm, Width: 248mm,
ISBN: 9780691206516
ISBN 10: 0691206511
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 28 April 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.