Includes bibliographical references and index.

-- Architecture -- Introduction: Late Baroque Classicism and Rococo -- Rome -- Carlo Fontana (1638-1714) - The Eighteenth Century -- Northern Italy and Florence -- Naples and Sicily -- Architecture in Piedmont -- The Prelude -- Guarino Guarini (1624-83) -- Filippo Juvarra (1678-1736) -- Bernardo Vittone (1702, not 1704/5-70) -- Sculpture -- Rome -- Typological Changes: Tombs and Allegories -- Sculpture outside Rome -- Painting -- Naples and Rome -- Florence and Bologna -- Northern Italy outside Venice -- Venice -- Sebastiano Ricci and Piazzetta - Pellegrini, Amigoni, Pittoni, Balestra - Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) -- The Genres -- Portraiture - The Popular and Bourgeois Genre - Landscape, Vedute, Ruins.

Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750 is the largest volume in the Pelican History of Art series covering almost two hundred years of architecture, sculpture and painting in a country that, for most of the first hundred, was the leading centre of European art. The baroque style created and developed there was to dominate the rest of the continent (and much of South America). Although Rome was at the forefront of the new style, developments in the provincial centres of Milan, Venice, Bologna, Naples and dozens of smaller towns are also surveyed, and the work of Bernini, Borromini and Caravaggio is balanced by that of Ricchini, Guarini and Tiepolo as well as numerous minor masters. This book has justly acquired canonical status, because of the lasting validity of the 'bird's-eye view of the whole panorama' which Wittkower gave, and the balance which he so brilliantly struck, reserving a detailed discussion for those works of art and architecture which, 'owing to their intrinsic merit and historical importance, appear to be in a special class'. It has now been revised and updated to include the wealth of recent research on this period.