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Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture is the first in-depth history of one of the great periods of Western art, spanning the years 1585 to 1785.  The text treats the major media–painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, and architecture–as well as gardens, furniture, tapestries, costume, jewelry, and ceramics, all in terms of their original function and patronage and with emphasis on the social, political and cultural context.  Organized by country and medium, the book contains biographies of the leading creative figures of the time, from Caravaggio and Rembrandt to Watteau and Hogarth.  Significantly, Professor Neuman offers the fullest account to date of women artists and the representation of women and families in art.  Additionally, drawing from recent scholarship, the text explores such fields as Spanish polychrome sculpture and Viceregal American painting.   Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture reviews traditional and recent strategies for interpreting artworks.  It also traces the dissemination of visual ideas through prints and drawings–the forerunners of today’s art reproductions and digital media.  In special sections the text raises questions regarding the nature of perception and how artists transfer optical data to the canvas.  Artists’ techniques, from painting and printmaking to sculpting in marble and casting in bronze, are explained.  Analysis of the institutions of art, such as the royal academies, apprenticeship systems, and artists’ exhibition rooms, complements an examination of collecting at all levels of society.  The book is exceptional in considering issues related to authenticity and the relative value of artworks based on attribution.   The illustrations comprise a visual resource of unprecedented quality, with some 450 images reproduced in full color and in a large format that ensures high detail and emphasizes recent conservation efforts.  Finally, an extensive glossary introduces seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art terms.  

Table of Contents:
In this Section: 1) Brief Table of Contents 2) Detailed Table of Contents     BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:   Chapter 1: The Birth of Baroque Painting in Italy     Chapter 2: The Sacred and Secular in Painting in Seventeenth-Century Italy  Chapter 3: Italian Baroque Sculpture and the Bel Composto  Chapter 4: Baroque Architecture in Italy  Chapter 5: The Golden Age of Spain and Viceregal America Chapter 6: The Human Figure in Dutch Seventeenth Century Painting  Chapter 7: Picturing Holland in the Dutch Republic’s Golden Age  Chapter 8: Flemish Baroque Painting in the Age of Rubens  Chapter 9: French Painting and Prints of the Seventeenth Century Chapter 10: Baroque Architecture in France and England  Chapter 11: French Painting from the Regency to the Reign of Louis XV  Chapter 12: The Public and the Private in French Painting of the Enlightenment  Chapter 13: French Sculpture and Architecture in the Eighteenth Century  Chapter 14: The Georgian Panorama in British Painting and Prints  Chapter 15: Architecture and Gardens in Eighteenth-Century Britain Chapter 16: Eighteenth-Century Austria, Germany, and Italy     DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS:   Chapter 1: The Birth of Baroque Painting in Italy Rome  Bologna  Art for the Counter-Reformation Church  Patronage: The Pope and His Cardinals  Patronage: Religious Orders and Confraternities  Federico Barocci  The Carracci  Caravaggio  Public Religious Commissions    Chapter 2: The Sacred and Secular in Painting in Seventeenth-Century Italy  Italian Followers of Caravaggio  The Bolognese School  Guido Reni  Domenichino  Giovanni Lanfranco  Guercino  Elisabetta Sirani  Bernardo Strozzi and Salvator Rosa  Pietro da Cortona  Andrea Sacchi  Giovanni Battista Gaulli  Luca Giordano  Andrea Pozzo  Chapter 3: Italian Baroque Sculpture and the Bel Composto  Patronage: Urban VIII Barberini  Stefano Maderno  Pietro Bernini  Francesco Mochi  Gianlorenzo Bernini  François Duquesnoy  Alessandro Algardi    Chapter 4: Baroque Architecture in Italy  Baroque Architecture in Italy  Roman Urbanism under Sixtus V  Roman Urbanism under Alexander VII  The Church  Il Gesù, Rome  Francesco Borromini  Gianlorenzo Bernini  Baldassare Longhena  Guarino Guarini  Domestic Architecture  The Palazzo Interior  The Country House    Chapter 5: The Golden Age of Spain and Viceregal Spain  The Visual Arts  An Artist’s Life  Juan Sánchez Cotán  Francisco Ribalta  Jusepe de Ribera  Francisco de Zurbarán  Polychrome Sculpture  Diego Velázquez  Bartolomé Esteban Murillo  Juan de Valdés Real  Iberian Architecture  Latin American Architecture  Latin American Painting    Chapter 6: The Human Figure in Dutch Seventeenth Century Painting  The Utrecht Followers of Caravaggio  Frans Hals  Judith Leyster  Rembrandt    Chapter 7: Picturing Holland in the Dutch Republic’s Golden Age  Pioneers of Dutch Genre  Manners and Morals at Mid Century  Johannes Vermeer  Mirror of Nature: Landscape  Visions of the Sea  Public and Private Spaces: Architectural Painting  Depicting Prosperity: Still Life  The Decline of the Golden Age  Chapter 8: Flemish Baroque Painting in the Age of Rubens  Peter Paul Rubens  Anthony van Dyck  Jacob Jordaens  Still Life: Clara Peeters and Frans Snyders  Genre Scenes: Adriaen Brouwer and David Teniers the Younger    Chapter 9: French Painting and Prints of the Seventeenth Century Jacques Bellange  Jacques Callot  Valentin de Boulogne  Georges de La Tour  Simon Vouet  The Le Nain Brothers  Philippe de Champaigne  Louise Moillon  Nicolas Poussin  Claude Lorrain  Charles Le Brun and the French Academy    Chapter 10: Baroque Architecture in France and England   France  The Place Royale  The Hôtel  The Ch®teau  The Palace  The Church  England and Inigo Jones  Christopher Wren  The Radiance of the Sun King  Architectural Models      Chapter 11: French Painting from the Regency to the Reign of Louis XV  Rubenism vs. Poussinism  Hyacinthe Rigaud and Nicolas de Largillierre  Antoine Watteau  Followers of Watteau  François Boucher    Chapter 12: The Public and the Private in French Painting of the Enlightenment  Face-Painting at Mid Century  Jean Siméon Chardin  Jean-Baptiste Greuze  Jean-Honoré Fragonard  Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun    Chapter 13: French Sculpture and Architecture in the Eighteenth Century  Antoine Coysevox Guillaume Coustou I Etienne-Maurice Falconet Jean-Baptiste Pigalle Architecture Perfected The Ch®teau The Garden Palace The Hôtel New Projects for Versailles The Rococo Interior The Place Royale The English Landscape Garden in France   Chapter 14: The Georgian Panorama in British Painting and Prints  William Hogarth  Thomas Gainsborough  Richard Wilson  Joseph Wright of Derby  Sir Joshua Reynolds  Constructing Social Identities: George Romney  George Stubbs    Chapter 15: Architecture and Gardens in Eighteenth-Century Churches  The Baroque Country House  The Palladian Revival  The Gothic Revival  City Planning  The English Landscape Garden    Chapter 16: Eighteenth-Century Austria, Germany, and Italy  Architecture in Austria  Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach  Jakob Prandtauer  Architecture in Germany  Balthasar Neumann  François de Cuvilliés  Augustus the Strong  German Churches: Neumann and the Zimmermann The Arts in Rome  Benedetto Luti  Corrado Giaquinto  Mariano Rossi  Giovanni Paolo Panini and Giovanni Battista Piranesi  Architecture in Rome  Architecture in Turin  Painting in Venice  Canaletto  Francesco Guardi  Roasalba Carriera  Pietro Longhi  Giovanni Battista Piazetta  Giambattista Tiepolo   

About the Author :
Robert Neuman is Professor of Art History at Florida State University, where he specializes in early modern European art and architecture.   He received his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  His scholarship ranges widely, encompassing all media including decorative arts, costume, and garden history.  In addition to articles, book chapters, and review essays, he is the author of the book, Robert de Cotte and the Perfection of Architecture in Eighteenth-Century France.  Several awards, including grants from the French government and the Millard Meiss Fund, have supported his research.  Professor Neuman has been recognized for excellence in teaching with three major awards at Florida State.

Review :
  “It is updated, far more inclusive than the available texts, and takes a fresh approach to scholarly work.” - Victor Coonin, Rhodes College   “A well-written and researched book, more thorough than most general textbooks, with good scholarship and good illustrations, student-friendly, and a good basis for lectures.” - Jill E. Blondin, The University of Texas at Tyler   “The clear formal analysis of each monument, seamlessly incorporated into discussions of iconography, social and historical context, and other conditions of each commission, piece together the grand scenography and aims of Baroque artists and patrons.  The text invites the reader to imagine the world in which these works were produced by including carefully researched histories and interpretations.” - Lisa Hanes, University of South Florida   “A promising new book on the subject, worth looking at.” - Jennifer Webb, University of Minnesota   “Clearly written and unfolds very logically.  It is a pleasure to read and very interesting.” - Lisa Rafanelli, Manhattanville College