Scholarly and thorough. [Four star rating] Art Times Old classics and new team up in this exciting anthology that will serve students and scholars alike for years to come. The Seicento field is not only represented here by broad discussions of style, art theory, and patronage but also by fascinating case studies of artistic practice, gender, science, and ... Read morethe art market ... A shot of adrenalin for this important area of art history. David M. Stone, University of Delaware Those of us working in baroque studies are lucky to have some of the best scholars and essayists in the discipline of art history writing about European, and specifically Italian, art of the 17th and 18th centuries; we are doubly lucky that Susan Dixon has gathered together so many of them for this volume. Vernon Hyde-Minor, University of Colorado at Boulder Show Less