{"product_id":"2026100007932-secondhand-painting-in-naples-from-caravaggio-to-giordano","title":"Painting In Naples: From Caravaggio To Giordano","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - softcover\/wraps in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew cities in the history of Western art burned as brightly — or as violently — as seventeenth-century Naples, a metropolis where Caravaggio's revolutionary chiaroscuro ignited a generation of painters and transformed the course of European Baroque art. Painting in Naples: From Caravaggio to Giordano chronicles this extraordinary creative era through a rich survey of the Neapolitan school, presenting the works of masters such as Ribera, Stanzione, Artemisia Gentileschi, Mattia Preti, and Luca Giordano — artists who turned darkness and drama into a transcendent visual language.\n\nThis landmark exhibition catalogue, produced in conjunction with a major showing at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, argues that Naples was not merely a peripheral outpost of the Italian Baroque but one of its most vital and innovative centres. The text illuminates the social, religious, and political forces that shaped this turbulent artistic milieu, while sumptuous reproductions allow the raw emotional power of these canvases to speak for themselves. For those drawn to the shadows of the Baroque, this volume raises a compelling question: how much of the modern world's visual imagination was forged in the fire of Naples?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130476339419,"sku":"2026100007932-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/46a67114-fc40-475a-9fc9-27ed8b62da78.png?v=1786585816","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007932-secondhand-painting-in-naples-from-caravaggio-to-giordano","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}