Paolo de Matteis: Neapolitan Painting and Cultural History in Baroque Europe - Softcover

Pestilli, Livio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138310220 ISBN 13: 9781138310223

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This volume represents a long overdue reassessment of the Neapolitan painter Paolo de Matteis, an artist largely overlooked in English language scholarly publications, but one who merits our attention for the quality of his work and the originality of its iconography, as well as for his remarkable ability to respond creatively to his patrons’ aesthetic ideals and agendas. Following a meticulous examination of the ways in which posterity’s impression of de Matteis has been conditioned by a biased biographical and literary tradition, Livio Pestilli devotes rich, detailed analyses to the artist’s most significant paintings and drawings. More than just a novel approach to de Matteis and the Neapolitan Baroque, however, the book makes a significant contribution to the study and understanding of early eighteenth-century European art and cultural history in general, not only in Naples but in other major European centers, including Paris, Vienna, Genoa, and Rome.

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About the Author

Livio Pestilli is Director and Professor of Art History at Trinity College-Rome Campus, Italy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138310220
• ISBN 13: 9781138310223
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 502