Baroque Pathways

The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome

New Hardback Illustrated

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In illustrated essays on the Barberini Palazzo in Rome, the Barberini as collectors and art patronage under Urban VIII, and commentary on 57 paintings by artists working in Rome in the first half of the 17th century, this volume reconstructs the genesis of Roman baroque painting inspired by Caravaggio. The study – and the exhibition it accompanied – looks in particular at Caravaggio’s Narcissus (1597–99) and the artist’s paradigm shift in narrative focus, realism and lighting.

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