Italian and Spanish Art, 1600-1750 : Sources and Documents

by Enggass, Robert; Brown, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780810110656
• ISBN10: 0810110652
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-12-01
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Italy	p. 3
Introductory Note	p. 3
Treatises on Art	p. 5
Bellori	p. 5
From L'Idea del pittore, dello scultore, e dell'architetto	p. 8
Giustiniani	p. 16
From a letter written by Giustiniani to Amayden	p. 16
Galileo	p. 20
From a letter written by Galileo to Cigoli	p. 22
Agucchi	p. 24
From Agucchi's Trattato della Pittura	p. 26
Marino	p. 30
From Dicerie sacre	p. 31
Mancini	p. 33
From Considerazioni sulla pittura	p. 34
From Considerazioni sulla pittura	p. 38
Scannelli	p. 39
From Microcosmo della Pittura	p. 42
Boschini	p. 48
From Ricche Minere della Pittura Veneziana	p. 51
Baldinucci	p. 55
From La Veglia	p. 56
Le Gros and the Jesuits	p. 59
From the Jesuit Archives: A Set of Briefs and Counterbriefs	p. 63
Lives of the Artists	p. 69
Carracci	p. 69
From Bellori's Le Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti moderni	p. 70
From a poem by Cavalier Marino on the death of Annibale Carracci	p. 75
Caravaggio: Part One	p. 75
From Bellori, Le Vite de'pittori, scultori ed architetti moderni	p. 78
Caravaggio: Part Two	p. 84
From testimony in court about Caravaggio	p. 85
Caravaggio: Part Three	p. 86
An epitaph on Caravaggio	p. 86
Reni	p. 86
From Malvasia, Felsina pittrice, Vite de' pittori bolognesi	p. 88
Lanfranco	p. 91
From Bellori, Le Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti moderni	p. 92
Guercino	p. 96
From Scannelli, Il Microcosmo della Pittura	p. 98
Duquesnoy	p. 100
From Bellori, Le Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti moderni	p. 101
Cortona	p. 102
From Passeri, Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti	p. 104
Bernini: Part One	p. 109
From Baldinucci, Vita del Cavaliere Giovanni Lorenzo Bernino	p. 112
Bernini: Part two	p. 122
From Chantelou's diary	p. 123
Algardi	p. 124
From Bellori, Le Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti moderni	p. 125
Salvator Rosa: Part One	p. 127
From Passeri, Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti	p. 128
Salvator Rosa: Part Two	p. 130
From Filippo Baldinucci, Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua	p. 131
Salvator Rosa: Part Three	p. 131
From a letter written by Rosa to Giovanni Battista Riccardi	p. 132
Salvator Rosa: Part Four	p. 134
The Witch by Salvator Rosa	p. 134
Maratti	p. 136
From Bellori's Vita del Maratti	p. 138
Giordano	p. 142
From Francesco Saverio Baldinucci's Vita di Giordano	p. 143
Baciccio	p. 147
From Pascoli, Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti moderni	p. 148
Magnasco	p. 151
From Ratti, Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti genovesi	p. 152
Spain	p. 159
Introductory Note	p. 159
Artistic Theory	p. 161
The Aims of the Christian Artist	p. 161
From Pacheco, El arte de la pintura	p. 162
The Iconography of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception	p. 165
From Pacheco, El arte de la pintura	p. 165
Lope de Vega, The Case for Painting as a Liberal Art	p. 167
Carducho Contra Caravaggio	p. 172
From Carducho, Dialogos de la pintura	p. 173
Lives of the Artists	p. 175
Alonso Cano	p. 175
From Diaz del Valle, Epilogo y nomenclatura de algunos artifices	p. 175
Ribera as an Expatriate Artist	p. 178
From Martinez, Discursos practicables del noblisimo arte de la pintura	p. 179
Palomino's Life of Velazquez	p. 180
From Palomino, El museo pictorico y escala optica	p. 181
Palomino's Life of Zurbaran	p. 196
From Palomino, El museo pictorico y escala optica	p. 196
Palomino's Life of Murillo	p. 198
From Palomino, El museo pictorico y escala optica	p. 199
Artistic Practice	p. 205
El Greco Versus the Hospital of Charity, Illescas	p. 205
Paintings by Titian in the Royal Palace, Madrid	p. 211
From Carducho, Dialogos de la pintura	p. 212
On the Painting of Flowers and Fruit	p. 215
From Pacheco, El arte de la pintura	p. 215
Directions for Painting Wooden Statuary	p. 217
From Pacheco, El arte de la pintura	p. 217
Pacheco's Quarrel with Martinez Montane's	p. 221
From Pacheco, A los profesores del arte de la pintura	p. 222
Index : Italy	p. 229
Index : Spain	p. 235
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