Genesis of the 17th Century Style in Italian Painting

FAIN: FA-10748-73

Sydney J. Freedberg
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)

To examine how works of painting done in the last years of the 16th century and beginning of the 17th century relate to the past and to one another, in order to understand more clearly the nature of the artisitic change from Mannerism into the direction that leads to the baroque, and to define the processes by which the change came about.