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Girolamo Muziano 1532-1592 dalla Maniera alla Natura

by Patrizia Tosini

Painter, draughtsman, possibly also sculptor and certainly an artistic impresario on a vast scale, Girolamo Muziano is one of the major protagonists of the Roman art-world during the second half of the sixteenth century and a crucial link between this and Venetian-Lombard culture. Eighty years after the only independent study of the artist’s work, with the conclusion of a monumental iconographic study protracted over a decade, this book finally presents a survey of the artist’s career with an in-depth historical and philological analysis of his paintings and patrons, and of his connections with the cultural protagonists of Counter-Reformation Rome. The catalogue is articulated in sections concerning the major fresco cycles, paintings, altarpieces, drawings and prints; it is enriched by the re-discovery of unknown and lost works supported by an apparatus of largely unpublished documents. As a result of this new research our knowledge of half a century of Roman painting, a territory only recently delineated by specialist studies and introduced to the broader public, is increased and rendered more transparent. With the publication of this volume Ugo Bozzi Editore inaugurates a new season of interest in the production of the Cinquecento after decades of activity dedicated to the art and artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

ISBN: 88-7003-043-1