What is Baroque? / Erwin Panofsky -- The idea of the painter, the sculptor and the architect / Pietro Bellori Giovan -- Fighting with style / Phillip Sohm -- Bernini's conception of the visual arts: 'un bel composto' / Irving Lavin -- Ars tornandi: Baroque architecture and the lathe / Joseph Connors -- A taste for Tiepolo / Svetlana Alpers and Michael Baxandall -- Practice in the Carracci Academy / Gail Feigenbaum -- Artemisia in her father's house / Patrizia Cavazzini -- Disegni, Bozzetti, Legnetti and Modelli in Roman Seicento sculpture / Jennifer Montagu -- Architects and clods: the emergence of urban planning in the context of palace architecture in seventeenth-century Rome / Dorothy Metzger Habel -- The mechanics of seventeenth-century patronage / Francis Haskell -- Scrambling for scudi: notes on painters' earnings in early Baroque Rome / Richard Spear -- The marketing of Pietro Testa's poetic inventions / Francesco Consagra -- Inside the palace: people and furnishings / Patricia Waddy -- A comment on the iconography of Pietro da Cortona's Barberini ceiling / Walter Vitzthum -- Seeing the shroud: Guarini's reliquary chapel in Turin and the ostentation of a dynastic relic / John Beldon Scott -- Myth and the new science: Vico, Tiepolo, and the language of the Optimates / Christopher Drew Armstrong -- Problems of the theme / Rudolf Wittkower -- Devotion and desire: the reliquary chapel of Maria Maddalena de'Pazzi / Karen-Edis Barzman -- Pastoralism in the Roman Baroque villa and in Claude Lorrain: myths and realities of the Roman Campagna / Mirka Benes -- The role of classical models in Bernini's and Poussin's preparatory work / Rudolf Wittkower -- The Greek style and the prehistory of neoclassicism / Charles Dempsey -- Piranesi and Francesco Bianchini: Capricci in the service of pre-scientific archaeology / Susan M. Dixon -- Cigoli's Immacolata and Galileo's Moon: astronomy and the virgin in early Seicento Rome / Steven F. Ostrow -- The fate of pictures: appearance, truth, and ambiguity / David Freedberg -- Lodoli on function and representation / Joseph Rykwert.
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