The legendary splendor of Genoese baroque art Genoa completed its transformation from a faded maritime power into a thriving banking center for Europe in the seventeenth century. The wealth accumulated by its leading families spurred investment in the visual arts on an enormous scale. This volume explores how artists both foreign and native created a singularly rich and extravagant expression of the baroque in works of extraordinary variety, sumptuousness, and exuberance. This art, however, has remained largely hidden behind the facades of the city's palaces, with few works, apart from those by the school's great expatriates, found beyond its borders. As a result, the Genoese baroque has been insufficiently considered or appreciated. Lavishly illustrated, A Superb Baroque is comprehensive, encompassing all the major media and participants. Presented are some 140 select works by the celebrated foreigners drawn to the city and its flourishing environment--from Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Giulio Cesare Procaccini to Pierre Puget, Marcantonio Franceschini, and Francesco Solimena; by the major Genoese masters active for much of their careers in other settings--Bernardo Strozzi, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Filippo Parodi, and Alessandro Magnasco; and above all by the brilliantly synthetic but unfamiliar masters who worked primarily in Genoa itself--Gioacchino Assereto, Valerio Castello, Domenico Piola, and Gregorio De Ferrari. Offering three levels of exploration--essays that frame and interpret, section introductions that characterize principal currents and stages, and texts that elucidate individual works--this volume is by far the most extensive study of the Genoese baroque in the English language. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome March 4-June 19, 2022

A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600–1750

Arts & Photography

Bober, Jonathan

Boccardo, Piero

Boggero, Franco

Lukehart, Peter

Zanini, Andrea

History & Criticism

Princeton University Press

Stemming originally from the circulation of International Gothic and early Renaissance painting around the Mediterranean, artistic relations between Genoa and Spain were given definitive impetus by the strong political and economic ties that linked the republic to the Spanish monarchy from the mid sixteenth century onwards. Philip IIs sending for a large number of Genoese painters to take part in the decoration of the monastery of the Escorial was one of the first milestones in a long flow of artists, works and materials from Genoa to the Iberian Peninsula over the centuries. This volume brings together a set of recent research papers on the key figures in these age-old links between Spain and Genoa and on the influence in Spain of Genoese works and collections of Italian art brought to Spain by Genoese.

España y Génova: Obras, artistas y coleccionistas (Spanish Edition)

Di Fabio, Clario

Colomer, José Luis

Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica

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