Critical Perspectives on Roman Baroque Sculpture

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Steven F. Ostrow and Anthony Colantuono

1 The “Accademia dei Scultori” in Late Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Rome

Peter M. Lukehart

2 Francesco Mochi: Stone and Scale

Michael Cole

3 Impossible Apostles: Francesco Mochi’s Saint Peter and Saint Paul for S. Paolo fuori le mura

Estelle Lingo

4 The Poetry of Atomism: Duquesnoy, Poussin, and the Song of Silenus

Anthony Colantuono

5 Orfeo Boselli’s Osservationi della scoltura antica: A Seventeenth-Century Treatise on Sculpture, Its Purpose, and Its Descent into Obscurity

Maria Cristina Fortunati

6 The Sculptural Altarpiece and Its Vicissitudes in the Roman Church Interior: Renaissance Through Baroque

Damian Dombrowski

7 “For we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men”: Alessandro Algardi’s Beheading of Saint Paul and the Theatricality of Martyrdom

Maarten Delbeke

8 “Appearing to be what they are not”: Bernini’s Reliefs in Theory and Practice

Steven F. Ostrow

9 The Poisoned Present: A New Reading of Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Rape of Proserpina

Christina Strunck

10 “Humoring” the Antique: Michel Anguier and the Physiological Interpretation of Ancient Greek Sculpture

Julia K. Dabbs

11 On Causes and Effects: Imitating Nature in Seventeenth-Century Sculpture Between Rome and Paris

Aline Magnien

List of Contributors

Bibliography

Index

“This book is certain to be an essential point of reference for any scholar broaching the subject of sculpture in early modern Rome. It is important for the diversity of its perspectives, the attention paid to particular works and genres, and the sophisticated analyses that breathe intellectual life back into the cold stone, all of which are prefaced by a much needed and comprehensive review of the historiography of the field.”

—Fabio Barry, Stanford University