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Published: 1984, Ugo Bozzi Editiore - s.a.s. - Roma
Cover: Hardcover with original dust jacket
Pages: 456
Language: Italian with English translation
Condition: Used - Good
ISBN: 88-7003-015-6
Luigi Salerno has published a comprehensive catalogue of still life painting in Italy between 1560 and 1805. He has applied the same methodological approach he developed for the three volumes he previously published with this publishing house on landscape painting in seventeenth-century Rome (1977-1978), first and foremost updating the biographies of the artists examined and including them within a chronologically arranged repertoire. For each protagonist of the genre under consideration, the author has also followed a substantially monographic approach, examining the evolution of the various artists' activity in light of their particular cultural context: from the precursors of still life painting in the sixteenth century to the diffusion of the genre by Caravaggio and his followers between Rome and Naples; from the analysis of other geographical areas that further determined the success of still life painting to the importance of the Bamboccianti, up to the definition of the genre between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Furthermore, drawing on a considerable body of documentation, Salerno analyzes, in turn, both the stylistic peculiarities of each individual artist and the original location of the reproduced paintings.
This bilingual volume offers a fundamental contribution to the study of nearly three centuries of painting, examining 120 leading masters of this genre and over 100 minor and foreign artists active in Italy.
