Melbourne Art Journal

No 9-10 2006-7

Art, Site and Spectacle:
Studies in Early Modern Visual Culture
Edited by David R. Marshall

Contents

7 David R. Marshall
Preface

8 Robert W. Gaston
Introduction: Some Meditations on Space and Place in Recent Florentine Art History

ART
14 Hugh Hudson
Fra Angelico and Paolo Uccello in the Early Quattrocento

34 Piers Baker-Bates
Sebastiano del Piombo’s Úbeda Pietà: Between Italy and Spain

44 Karin Wolfe
Francesco Trevisani and Landscape: Joseph Sold into Slavery in the National Gallery of Victoria

SITE
The Margaret Manion Lecture 2005
62 Robert W. Gaston
Untangling the Mannerist Narrative: Bronzino, Moses, and Eleonora of Toledo in the Palazzo
de’Signori, Florence

78 Christina Strunck
‘The Marvel Not Only of Rome, But of All Italy’: The Galleria Colonna, Its Design History and
Pictorial Programme 1661–1700

104 Arnold Witte
Hermits in High Society: Private Retreats in Late Seicento Rome

120 David R. Marshall
Giovanni Paolo Panini as Architectural Critic: The Competition for the Façade of S. Giovanni in
Laterano in 1732 and the Quirinal Caffeaus

SPECTACLE
144 Lisa Beaven
Claude Lorrain’s Harbour Scenes: Sun, Science and the Theatre in the Barberini Years

162 Katrina Grant
Teatri di Verzura: Hedge Theatres in Baroque Lucca

176 Mark D. Shepheard
‘Will the Real Boccherini Please Stand Up’: New Light on an Eighteenth-Century Portrait in the
National Gallery of Victoria

The Joseph Burke Lecture 2006
198 Ted Gott
‘It is Lovely to be a Gorilla, Sometimes’: The Art and Infl uence of Emmanuel Fremiet, Gorilla
Sculptor

220 Contributors

222 Abstracts