Lezioni di storia dell'arte. Vol. 3: Dal trionfo del barocco all'età romantica

The third volume of the series Lezioni di storia dell'arte, created in collaboration with FAI - Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano, aims at providing a useful and interesting source of knowledge - which is new both layout and approach - on the principal themes of western art.
Important scholars, internationally recognised and involved in wide-ranging fields of research, guide readers through the changes, links and novelties of European art: starting from the Baroque era in Rome, the capital of renewed Catholicism through the rococo developments at the major European courts, Versailles, St. Petersburg, Venice and Madrid, up to the neo-classical periods that led to the romantic and revivalist movements of the nineteenth century.
Through a broad selection of specialist essays, this third volume entitled Dal trionfo del barocco all'età romantica, covers the birth and development of baroque culture in Italy and Europe, the characteristics of the great movements in late baroque and rococo painting, from Velázquez to Tiepolo, the influence of Bernini's sculpture, to the renewed love for antiquity in the neo-classical period and concludes with the subsequent crisis in favour of the new romantic temperament.

The single essays are connected by short linking texts aimed at giving the reader a synthesis of the transformations that occurred in artistic language and the developments that led from one epoch to the next, further corroborated by images of emblematic masterpieces from each period and synoptic tables that underline the close ties between historical events and artistic enterprise.