For courses in 17th Century and Baroque Art.   Written by a leading scholar, Seventeenth Century Art: Architecture, 2/e is the only text on the market that introduces students to the three major art forms-painting, sculpture and architecture, across six countries.  The text engagingly and effectively combines analytical discussions with an expansive collection of vivid, illuminating illustrations that teach students the major developments of art, painting, and architecture that emerged from seventeenth-century Western Europe, as well as the socio-political and cultural background of the period.

Table of Contents:
Preface      Introduction Politics, Religion, and Art The Economics of Art    Geography, Cosmology, and Astronomy   Concepts of the Body, Ancient and Modern Education and Literacy Artists’ Changing Status and Training   New Subjects, New Genres   Transforming the Renaissance and “Baroque” Art    Chapter 1    Italy The Decline of Mannerism   Architecture and City Planning in Rome Bolognese Painting: the Carracci Reform Painting in Rome     Annibale Carracci in Rome Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Caravaggio’s Italian Followers The Carracci Succession in Rome and Bologna Architecture and City Planning in Rome Italian Sculpture     Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Early Career     Bernini, Algardi, and the Portrait Bust     The Competition: Alessandro Algardi and Francesco Duquesnoy     Bernini and Urban VIII       Algardi and Bernini during the Papacy of Innocent X   Painting in Rome     Pietro da Cortona     Andrea Sacchi     Pietro da Cortona in Florence and Rome        Carlo Maratta        Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)    Painting in Naples      Chapter 2    Flanders Peter Paul Rubens        Rubens in Italy, 1600—1608        Rubens in Antwerp, 1609—1622        Rubens, Diplomat and Artist, 1622—1630     Rubens’s Last Decade, 1630—1640    Anthony van Dyck        Van Dyck in England and Italy, 1621—1627        Van Dyck’s Second Antwerp Period, 1627—1632        Van Dyck in England, 1632—1641    Jacob Jordaens    Still-Life and Genre Painters    Chapter 3    Spain   Spanish Architecture Spanish Sculpture   Spanish Painting, 1600—1650     Jusepe de Ribera       Francisco de Zurbarán        Diego Velázquez in Seville       Velázquez in Madrid, 1623—1648     Velázquez in Italy, 1648—1651        Velázquez in Madrid, 1651—1660   Spanish Painting, 1650—1700     Bartolomé Esteban Murillo     Juan de Valdés Leal and Claudio Coello   Chapter 4    France   Architecture and City Planning     Paris: The Pont-Neuf, Places Dauphine and Royale and the Palais du Luxembourg     Paris under Richelieu and Mazarin: 1630—1660     Expansion under Louis XIV; The Louvre and Versailles French Sculpture     Pierre Puget     François Girardon and Antoine Coysevox French Painting and Printmaking       Simon Vouet     Valentin de Boulogne     Georges de la Tour     Simon Vouet’s Successors     Philippe de Champaigne     Nicolas Poussin in Paris and Rome     Poussin after 1630     Poussin and Landscape Painting     Poussin’s Last Works     Claude Lorrain and French Landscape Painting     Charles Le Brun and the Academy   Chapter 5    The Dutch Republic Haarlem and the Creation of a Dutch National Style     The Haarlem Mannerists The Utrecht “Caravaggisti” Frans Hals and Dutch Portraiture Town Planning and Architectural Developments in Haarlem and Amsterdam Painting in Amsterdam Rembrandt van Rijn and his School     Rembrandt’s Early Years in Leiden     Rembrandt in Amsterdam     Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits     Rembrandt in Amsterdam, 1639—42       Rembrandt’s Landscape Prints and Drawings     Rembrandt after 1642       Rembrandt’s Artistic Heirs Dutch Genre Painting before 1650     Judith Leyster   Dutch Genre Painting after 1650       Johannes Vermeer     Jan Steen Landscape Painting before 1650     Early Tonal Landscape Painting Landscape Painting after 1650   Chapter 6    England   English Painting before van Dyck Portrait Painting in England after van Dyck Palladianism and Architectural Planning in London     Inigo Jones        Christopher Wren    Epilogue Notes Timechart   Bibliography    Picture Credits   Index