From Caravaggio to Artemisia: Essays on Painting in Seventeenth-century Italy & France

This volume brings together more than thirty of Richard Spear's most important articles and selected chapters from his main books, organized in three sections, Caravaggio and Caravaggism, Italy and France, and Bolognese Painters. The author provides important addenda and retrospective critical reflections on each of the essays.
Contents: Caravaggio and Caravaggism: Caravaggio and His Followers
Caravaggisti at the Palazzo Pitti
'The International Caravaggesque Movement' by Benedict Nicolson
Stocktaking in Caravaggio Studies
The Critical Fortune of a Realist Painter
Leonardo, Raphael, and Caravaggio
Artemisia Gentileschi: Ten Years of Fact and Fiction
Caravaggio's 'Death of the Virgin' by Pamela Askew
Saints and Sinners
Italy and France: Baciccio's Pendant Paintings of 'Venus and Adonis'
Baciccio's 'Venus and Adonis': A Postscript
Studies in Conservation and Connoisseurship: Problematic Paintings by Manfredi, Saraceni and Guercino
Johann Liss Reconsidered
Princeton: Italian Baroque Paintings
Notes on Naples in the Seicento
The Literary Sources of Poussin's 'Realm of Flora'
On the Relationship between Subject and Decorative Modes in Baroque Fresco Cycles
A New Book on La Tour
'The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century' by Christopher Wright
Reni contre Dominiquin dans la litterature d'art francaise du XVIIe siecle
Bolognese Painters: Domenichino and the Farnese 'Loggia del Giardino'
Preparatory Drawings by Domenichino
The Cappella della Strada Cupa: a Forgotten Domenichino Chapel
Bolognese Paintings in Florence
A Forgotten Landscape Painter: Giovanni Battista Viola
Domenichino's Artistic Personality
Domenichino Addenda
Re-viewing the 'Divine Guido'
Guercino's 'Prix-fixe': Observations on Studio Practices and Art Marketing in Emilia
"Martyr", "Mary Magdalene" and "Di sua mano" from 'The "Divine" Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni'
Guido's Grace
Additional Notes
Index.