Italian Frescoes: The Baroque Era, 1600-1800
Following the success of the previous volumes in this extraordinary Italian  Frescoes series--The Age of Giotto; The Early Renaissance; The Flowering of  the Renaissance; and The High Renaissance and Mannerism--This new  publication features twenty-five fresco cycles, each representing a notable  achievement in the history of art. The fresco cycles presented include  brilliant works by Domenichino, Sebastiano Ricci, Guercino, and  Tiepolo--all of them still visible on walls and ceilings of palaces and  churches spanning Italy from Venice to Naples.The authors present such celebrated sites as the Barberini Palace in Rome  and the Pitti Palace in Florence, as well as lesser-known gems. Each of the  chapters is concise and authoritative, offering a descriptive and  interpretive essay on all aspects of the fresco cycle, covering the artists  and their patrons in the context of their cultural and political history.  Each essay concludes with a diagram of the site, followed by a series of  full- and double-page color plates showing the entire cycle, many  reproduced from new photographs of recently restored frescoes.No publisher until now has attempted to gather together and document all  the important fresco cycles of Italian art from the late thirteenth to the  eighteenth century. While this volume is a continuation of the previous  books, Italian Frescoes: The Baroque Era certainly stands alone as an  incredible treasury of art and scholarship that will be eagerly collected  by art historians and art lovers alike