ITALIAN BAROQUE SCULPTURE
Bruce Boucher

The sculptural flowering of the Italian Baroque—the sensuous beauty of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne; the spectacular papal tombs in St. Peter's; dramatic altarpieces such as the mystical Ecstasy of St. Teresa, and Rome's dazzling fountains—boldly transcended the traditional limitations of artistic media. Often dismissed in the past for creating a sham world to distract the observer's attention with dazzling technical displays, the sculpture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy is here reassessed for the first time in more than a generation. Bruce Boucher's book provides an invaluable critical survey of Italian Baroque sculpture.

"The two outstanding qualities of Bruce Boucher's reappraisal of Italian baroque sculpture are balance and versatility . . . Prepare to be confronted, and delighted, with the irrational side of nature."
                                  —Times Literary Supplement

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