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Published to accompany exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, February 5 - April 14 1985 and at the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte Naples, May 12 - June 30 1985.
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The Ruin of the Eternal City provides the first systematic analysis of the preservation practices of the popes, civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens of Renaissance Rome. This study offers a new understanding of historic preservation as it occurred during the extraordinary rebuilding of a great European capital city.
"Principles of Art History Writing traces the changes in the way in which writers about art represent the same works. These differ in such deep ways as to raise the question of whether those at the beginning of the process even saw the same things as those at the end did. Carrier uses four case studies to identify and explain changing styles of restoration and the history of interpretation of selected works by Piero, Caravaggio, and van Eyck." -- Back cover
Published to accompany one of the most exciting international art events of 2001, this magnificent volume explores the origins of the baroque style in Rome between 1592 and 1623...With over 300 full colour plates and twelve essays by leading scholars in the field, the catalogue is a significant landmark in art-historical publishing. The essays are illustrated with some of the most dramatic paintings of the early baroque, each with a discursive caption, and the catalogue includes biographies of fifty artists and an extensive bibliography. -- Dust jacket.
This innovative study explores how interpretations of religious art change when it is moved into a secular context.
This book examines all facets of the High Renaissance painter Raphael.