1st Edition

Federico Barocci Inspiration and Innovation in Early Modern Italy

Edited By Judith W. Mann Copyright 2018
242 Pages 30 Color & 113 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 30 Color & 113 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 30 Color & 113 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 1533–1612), 'the greatest artist you’ve never heard of'. One of the first original iconographers of the Counter Reformation, Barocci was a remarkably inventive religious painter and draftsman, and the first Italian artist to incorporate extensive color into his drawings. The purpose of this volume is to offer new insights into Barocci’s... Read more

Table of contents:

  1. Introduction: New Insights into Barocci’s Senigallia Entombment and Suggestions on his Late Workshop Practice
  2. Babette Bohn and Judith Mann

  3. From Altar to Hearth: Barocci and the Brancaleoni of Piobbico
  4. Carol Plazzotta

  5. Just what is it that makes Barocci’s painting so different, so appealing?
  6. Claudio Pizzorusso

  7. Federico Barocci and the Artistic Legacy of his Homeland
  8. Alessandra Giannotti

  9. Federico Barocci and the Corpus of High Renaissance Art
  10. Stuart Lingo

  11. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in it:" Barocci’s Design Process
  12. Babette Bohn

  13. Drawing the Virgin: Federico Barocci’s Doctrine of the Virgin Mary
  14. Judith W. Mann

  15. "God Knows When He’ll Finish": Barocci and the Art Market
  16. Richard E. Spear

  17. The Tip of the Iceberg: Barocci’s Post Mortem Inventory and the Survival of Renaissance Drawings

David Eckserdjian

Biography

Judith W. Mann is Curator of European Art to 1800 at the Saint Louis Art Museum, USA.