Renaissance and Baroque Art
Selected Essays
Edited by Sheila Schwartz
With an Introduction by Stephen J. Campbell
416 pages
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104 color plates, 140 halftones
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8-1/2 x 11
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© 2020
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments, Sheila Schwartz
Introduction, Stephen J. Campbell
1. Words That Prevent Perception
2. Mantegna: Did He Paint by the Book?
3. “How Shall This Be?” Reflections on Filippo Lippi’s Annunciation in London
4. Mantegna’s Dead Christ: Passion and Pattern
5. Pontormo’s Capponi Chapel
6. Pontormo’s Alessandro de’ Medici; or, I Only Have Eyes for You
7. Salviati’s Beheading of St. John the Baptist
8. An El Greco Entombment Eyed Awry
9. Observations in the Cerasi Chapel
10. Guercino’s Saint Petronilla
11. Steen’s Female Gaze and Other Ironies
12. Deciphering Velázquez’s Old Woman
13. The Water Carrier of Velázquez
14. Velázquez’s Pablo de Valladolid
15. Velázquez’s Las Meninas
16. The Glorious Company
Notes
Leo Steinberg: Chronology
Leo Steinberg: Publications (1947–2010)
Photography Credits
Index
Introduction, Stephen J. Campbell
1. Words That Prevent Perception
2. Mantegna: Did He Paint by the Book?
3. “How Shall This Be?” Reflections on Filippo Lippi’s Annunciation in London
4. Mantegna’s Dead Christ: Passion and Pattern
5. Pontormo’s Capponi Chapel
6. Pontormo’s Alessandro de’ Medici; or, I Only Have Eyes for You
7. Salviati’s Beheading of St. John the Baptist
8. An El Greco Entombment Eyed Awry
9. Observations in the Cerasi Chapel
10. Guercino’s Saint Petronilla
11. Steen’s Female Gaze and Other Ironies
12. Deciphering Velázquez’s Old Woman
13. The Water Carrier of Velázquez
14. Velázquez’s Pablo de Valladolid
15. Velázquez’s Las Meninas
16. The Glorious Company
Notes
Leo Steinberg: Chronology
Leo Steinberg: Publications (1947–2010)
Photography Credits
Index
Review Quotes
Eric Gibson | Spectator
"Renaissance and Baroque Art includes essays on keystone paintings like Diego Velázquez’s ‘Las Meninas’, as well as works by artists such as El Greco, Caravaggio and Mantegna. Because Steinberg’s prose style is almost conversational — lively, literate and accessible — and his insights rarely less than revelatory, there’s plenty here for the general reader."
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