A better than very good copy, in bright fresh condition: very clean, square and tight with no pen-marks, no underlining and no splits. Seller Inventory # 073006
Synopsis: 408p large format hardback, an excellent copy, clean pages, dustjacket clean, like new
Review: Designed to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Royal Academy in London, The Genius of Rome 1592-1623 is a sumptuous catalogue of essays that celebrates what its editor sees as "the international confluence of artistic talent in Rome around 1600 that fostered what would become known as baroque art". Between 1592 and 1623 three Popes--Clement VIII, Paul V and Gregory XV--spent spectacular sums on churches, chapels, palaces and urban renewal, deliberately recreating Rome as a centre of artistic life, and commissioning the work of (among others) Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Adam Elsheimer and Peter Paul Rubens.
While The Genius of Rome amounts to much more than these four painters, they are identified with "the birth of the baroque", evolving from a mixture of Carracci's "temperate classicism", Caravaggio's "intensely naturalistic style", and the still life and landscape traditions imported from the north by Rubens and Elsheimer. The essays collected here offer a fascinating range of responses to the creation of the Baroque, from the shady underworld of Caravaggio's "cardsharps, gypsies and street vendors", via considerations of the paintings of music, classicism, still lives and landscape, to a discussion of the radical intermingling of the sacred and the profane in the paintings and altarpieces of Caravaggio. Ultimately, Caravaggio steals the show, partly in the light of Peter Robb's controversial biography M, and Helen Langdon's more considered book Caravaggio: A Life, but with over 300 beautiful colour-plates gathered together here, there is an embarrassment of Baroque artistic riches from which to choose. --Jerry Brotton
Title: The Genius of Rome, 1592-1623
Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
Book Description Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Crisp clean covers, tight binding, clean pages and inside covers. Contains many colour illustrations. No dust jacket, as published. Previous owner's name, Kerry Downes, in pencil at the front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kg. ISBN: 0900946881. ISBN/EAN: 9780900946882. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 19122041038. For International tracked shipping please select the Priority shipping service. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. Seller Inventory # 19122041038
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. HARDBACK AND DUST JACKET IN FINE CONDITION. Seller Inventory # 148721
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover. ; Color and B & W Illustrations; Folio - 13" to 23" tall; 408 pages. Seller Inventory # 27888