Naples

Marcia B. Hall is Carnell Professor of Renaissance Art at Temple University. She is the series editor of Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance and editor of the first volume in the series, Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She is the author of Renovation and Counter-Reformation; Color and Meaning; After Raphael; Michelangelo: The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel; and The Sacred Image in the Age of Art. She is the editor of volumes including Color and Technique in Renaissance Painting; The Princeton Raphael Symposium (with John Shearman); Raphael's 'School of Athens' (Cambridge University Press, 1997); The Cambridge Companion to Raphael (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment' (Cambridge University Press, 2004); and, most recently, The Sensuous in the Counter-Reformation Church (with Tracy E. Cooper, Cambridge University Press, 2013). Thomas Willette is Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Massimo Stanzione (with Sebastian Schütze) and the editor of Art History in the Age of Bellori (with Janis Bell, Cambridge University Press, 2008). He has contributed essays on Neapolitan painting and art historiography to various periodicals and anthologies, including Ricerche sul'600 napoletano, Napoli nobilissima, New Vico Studies, the Journal of Modern Italian Studies, and the volume Re-Reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe. He was awarded an NEH fellowship for his current research on the reception history of the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.

• Introduction: Naples in myth and history Ronald G. Musto; 1. Giorgio Vasari's critique of art and patronage in Naples Thomas Willette; 2. Urban design and public spaces Anna Giannetti; 3. Ecclesiastical architecture and the religious orders Charlotte Nichols; 4. Patrons and paintings from the Anjou to the Spanish Hapsburgs Serena Romano; 5. Tombs and the ornamentation of chapels Tanja Michalsky; 6. The residence of power Gérard Labrot; Bibliography.

'Provides ample evidence of Naples's artistic importance. … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' A. L. Palmer, Choice