Book Launch :
Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench
by Dr Christopher R. Marshall
Senior Lecturer in Art History and Museum Studies, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2016
To be formally launched by Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, National Gallery of Australia
Presented in partnership with the Australian Institute of Art History.
Thursday, 20 October 2016 6.00pm-8.00pm
The Ian Potter Museum of Art University of Melbourne PARKVILLE VIC 3010
In Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting, Marshall presents a new reading of 17th-century Italian Baroque art that explores the social, material, and economic
history of painting, revealing how artists, agents, and the owners of artworks interacted to form a complex and mutually sustaining art world. Through such topics as artistic rivalry and anti-foreign labor agitation, art dealing and forgery, cultural diplomacy, and the rise of the independently arranged art exhibition, Christopher R. Marshall illuminates the rich interconnections between artistic practice and patronage, business considerations, and the spirit of entrepreneurialism in Baroque Italy.
Christopher R. Marshall is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Museum Studies at the University of Melbourne. His research distinctions include two years support from the Australian Research Council, the Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellowship (Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC), a Senior Research Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, a Research Fellowship at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, and Visiting Senior Lecturing Fellowships at the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, and the Department of Art and Art History, Duke University.
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