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Federico Barocci: Allure and Devotion in Late Renaissance Painting
Lingo, Stuart. 2008. Federico Barocci: Allure and Devotion in Late Renaissance Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press, 292. Publisher's Version Abstract
Retrospection and modernity -- Orders of reform -- Vision and icon -- Returning towards the source -- Legacy of the Renaissance and the contemporary cult image -- Quest for vaghezza -- What's in a word: vaghezza in the language of criticism -- Figures of vaghezza -- Other vaghezze: painting the loveliness of the world -- Colors of vaghezza: ornament, desire, and spiritual fervor in Barocci's coloring -- Ut pictura musica.

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