Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting

Daniel M. Unger teaches the History of Early Modern Art at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. His research focuses on seventeenth-century Bolognese and Roman painting. His recent book Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting: Ideology, Practice, and Criticism was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2019.

• List of Plates and Figures Preface Introduction Chapter One: Defining Eclecticism - Assimilated Eclecticism - Vasari's Raphael - Arbitrary Eclecticism - Non-Assimilated Eclecticism - A Definition Chapter Two: Ideology - Gabriele Paleotti's Discourse on Sacred Images - A Pictorial Manifest: Alliance between Disegno and Colore - Carlo Cesare Malvasia and the Assemblage of Styles Chapter Three: Practice - The Terrestrial and Celestial Realms - Portraits of Saints: St. Carlo Borromeo - Other Eclectic Paintings Chapter Four: Criticism - Winckelmann's Introduction of Eclecticism into Artistic Discourse - The Nineteenth-Century Juste milieu - The Dismissal of Eclecticism in the Twentieth Century, Conclusion: The Eclectic Approach Epilogue: Eclecticism in a Roman Chapel, Works Cited

"There is a long history of dispute over the word eclecticism and its application to paintings of the Carracci school. Unger (Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel) surveys the rise and fall of that term and makes a valiant and deft attempt to resuscitate it and apply it to particular works. Unger sorts out knotty controversies = clearly and cogently, aware that postmodernism currently makes new space for eclecticism."Summing Up: Recommended- P. Emison, University of New Hampshire, CHOICE Reviews, November 2019 Vol. 57 No. 3