Emerging from Darkness

This is the catalogue from the Hamilton Gallery's exhibition 'Emerging from Darkness, Faith, Emotion and the Body in the Baroque'.

The exhibition — of more than 60 Baroque artworks as shown in full colour plates in the catalogue — explored the radical transformation in Italian art that took place around the beginning of the seventeenth century. Articles and reproductions of the artworks in this book focus on "how major Italian Baroque artists treated the human body in a new way, as they rejected the exaggerated, over-idealised representation of the figure by prior Mannerist artists, implementing instead a degree of naturalism based on direct observation"

The book also discusses "the influence of Caravaggio and there is a particular focus on women artists who worked in the early seventeenth century, including Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi."