Parthenope's Splendor: Art of the Golden Age in Naples
Softcover
1993 · University Park, Penna
University Park, Penna: Department of Art History, The Pennsylvania State University, 1993. Softcover. VG- (Ex-library, with spine label and possible markings, pages are tanning at margin edges, otherwise clean and good.). Black & illus. wraps, 478 pp., many BW illus., 4 fold-outs. Papers in Art History from The Pennsylvania State University, Volume VII. Contains these articles: Reflections of the Golden Age: the Visitor's Account of Naples / Jeanne Chenault Porter -- Vasari and Naples / The Monteolivetan Order / Liana Cheney -- Caravaggio's "Roman Charity" in the Seven Acts of Mercy / Anna Tuck-Scala -- Giovanni Battista Caracciolo and Drawing in Seventeenth-Century Naples / Alfred Moir -- The Vita S. Brunonis Cartusianorum Patriarchae and its Interpretation by Massimo Stanzione in the Certosa di S. Martino in Naples / Sebastian Schutze -- Fowl play: Eros and Equivocation in a Neapolitian Portrait / Thomas Willette -- The "Prophetic" Dozen: Jusepe de Ribera's Old Testament Figures at the Certosa di S. Martino in Naples / Jeanne Chenault Porter -- Jusepe de Ribera's Isaac's Benediction of Jacob: Spanish Cross-Currents in Seventeenth-Century Naples / Michael Tomor -- Female and Male Art: Postille to Garrard's Artermisia Gentileschi / George L. Hersey -- Mattia Preti's Madonna of Constantinople and a Marian Cult in Seventeenth-Century Naples / James Clifton -- Pedro of Aragon's Plan for a "Private Port" (Darsena) in Naples: Reconstruction and Genesis of a Classical Building Type / Elisabeth Sladek -- The Chruch of the Annunziata in Naples / Jorg Garms -- L'Accademia di Luigi Vanvitelli: Disegni inediti / Antonella Pampalone -- A Drawing by De Mura for the Nunziatella / Robert Enggass -- Appendix: Viceroys and Sovereigns who Ruled in Naples. One article appears in Italian. (Inventory #: 136029)