The Age of Correggio and the Carracci : Emilian painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
1986, First Edition. Washington, DC : National Gallery of Art. Very good paperback copy with French flaps; spine somewhat creased, slight wear to wrapper edges. French flaps somewhat tanned with age. Tight, bright and clean internally. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #450964
ISBN: 0894680943
Physical description; xxxi, 561 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm. Notes; Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Pinacoteca nazionale di Bologna, 10 Sept. - 11 Nov. 1986; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 Dec. 1986 - 16 Feb. 1987; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 19 March - 24 May 1987. Translated from the Italian by Robert Erich Wolf ... [et al.] Contents; Lombard character, Roman ideas, Etruscan spirits, and the antique in Emilian painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Giuliano Briganti. The frescoes of Correggio and Parmigianinio: from beauty to elegance / Eugenio Riccòmini. Emilia and Fontainebleau: aspects of a dialogue / Sylvie Béguin. Emilian art in the sixteenth century: grace and the grotesque / Vera Fortunati Pietrantonio. Art, science, and nature in Bologna circa 1600 / Giuseppe Olmi and Paolo Prodi. The Caracci reform of painting / Charles Dempsey. Emilian painting of the seventeenth century. Bolognese painting in the seventeenth century / D. Stephen Pepper. Seventeenth-century fresco cycles in Bologna and Emilia / Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée. "Felsina sempre pittrice": the later fate of Bolognese painting / Anna Ottani Cavina. Subjects; Painting, Italian--Italy--Emilia-Romagna--16th century--Exhibitions. Painting, Italian--Italy--Emilia-Romagna--17th century--Exhibitions. Mannerism (Art)--Italy--Emilia-Romagna--Exhibitions. Painting, Baroque--Italy--Emilia-Romagna--Exhibitions.
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