A precious tool containing the latest research on Domenichino, an extraordinary exponent of the great period of 17th-century painting.
An artist with a complex personality, Domenichino developed a very personal poetics of classical idealization, based on rigor and order of design and compositional clarity. The catalogue of the exhibition in Rome in 1996, the largest ever held of the artist’s work, edited by a prestigious team of experts and containing enlightening critical writings, analyzes about eighty paintings and over seventy preparatory drawings to shed light on the entire creative career of the painter, from his first stay in Rome in 1602 to his departure for Naples in 1631 and his death in that city.