Illuminations: Italian Baroque Masterworks in Canadian Collections (Paperback)
Featuring some of Canada's foremost Baroque paintings, Illuminations studies the Baroque fascination with theatricality and visual spectacle in religious, mythological, and popular imagery. It explores how seventeenth-century audiences were confronted with pictures that frequently broke conventions by manipulating the sources and meaning of light while depicting all types of subjects.
Accompanies a travelling exhibition opening at the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton): February 28-May 31, 2015 and then moving to the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), June 26-October 12, 2015.
Benedict Leca is director of Curatorial Affairs, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaDevin Therien is Guest Curator, Art Gallery of HamiltonC.D. Dickerson is curator of European Art at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TXLloyd DeWitt is curator of European Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada