Captured emotions : Baroque painting in Bologna, 1575-1725 /

This exhibition catalogue is a coordinated effort between the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and their co-curators Henning and Schaefer. It includes 11 essays focused on the depiction of emotion in Bolognese painting from 1575 to 1725, beginning with the Carracci family and ending with Giuseppe Maria Crespi. The exhibition features 27 paintings from Dresden and others from museums in Southern California. It includes four paintings of the Evangelists by Guercino and the seven sacraments by Crespi, all rarely illustrated elsewhere. The catalogue begins with an excellent overview by Charles Dempsey that describes the Carracci break with mannerism and their movement beyond Vasari's theoretical discussions of disegno versus colore to new critical distinctions between Correggio's color, Titian's chiaroscuro, Michelangelo's depiction of active figures, and Raphael's ideal compositions in their quest for a new maniera devota. Subsequent essays include discussions on the Carracci and Crespi, collecting in both Dresden and Southern California, naturalism, classicism, Bolognese copper paintings, verisimilitude and idealism in portrait painting, variations on the theme of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, and finally the critical reception of this Bolognese reform movement in subsequent centuries. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers. A. L. Palmer University of Oklahoma