The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6) / From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century

The volume traces painting across northern and central Italian centers, surveying local schools—Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, and Piedmont—through successive epochs that move from early masters to later academies. It profiles changing styles, technical practices, notable groups and teachers, and the processes of influence, decline, and revival; it situates regional art within exchanges with Roman, Parmesan, and foreign styles. The text mixes chronological biography, critical description of paintings and techniques, and accounts of institutions, inscriptions, pigments, and atelier practices to explain how local tastes and academies shaped pictorial production through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.