Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750 – Volume 2: The High Baroque, 1625–1675 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series)

Wittkower a great student of this subject, and his work in many ways field-defining. Some updating of the book seeks to account for the wealth of scholarship since. But the original contribution still stands as a masterly summation in its own right.

Perfectly wonderful by the authority figure on the Italian baroque, The authority, the authority, the authority!

Wittkower is a powerful art historian and skilled and scholarly writer. This book has been very instrumental in my art history training.