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London: Royal Academy of the Arts, 2001. First Impression. Hardcover. As New/As New. Demy folio, [31.25cm/12.5inches], full gilt-embossed burgundy-coloured cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 408, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. To quote the Manchester Guardian: "The title of the, (January to April), 2001 exhibition ‘The Genius of Rome’, held in London and Rome, is ambiguous. The curatorial meaning is that the simultaneous presence of painters, patrons and other power brokers during two and a half decades made ‘the birth of the baroque’ possible. Through a thematic distribution, the exhibition attempts to convey the temporal and spatial convergence implied by the title. One can also take the title to refer to Rome not simply as a location, as a site where things happened to happen, but as a social, institutional and political unit with causal powers. Rome, then, not only houses people of genius; it itself has genius - that of the power brokers of church and state. A third connotation equally active in this exhibition is the individualizing, narrativizing one that leads up to Caravaggio. Through an analysis of the relationship between the title of the exhibition, the idea or concept of ‘baroque’ and the thematic arrangement of the paintings, the disciplinary distinction between art history, cultural history and visual culture studies is clarified".
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