Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue: The Gestures of the Skeletons, reticulations of the baroque world
Part I: Centres and peripheries
1 James Fraser: experiencing the arts of Italy in the mid seventeenth century
2 The Jesuits and the languages of Britain: the case of Robert Corbie SJ
3 Gentileschi and the ancestors
4 Pope’s recusancy
5 Mr Gibbon’s shadow, or ‘the parent of the arts’
Part II: Materialities
6 The solemnity of the Madonna Vulnerata, Valladolid, 1600
7 Opposing Elizabeth
8 Relics and memorials of Mary Stuart in the Low Countries
9 Viper wine
10 The Assassin’s new Castles: frescoes and textiles for the Leslies at Nové Mesto nad Metují and Ptui
11 A Jesuit reliquary Crucifix from Japan
12 The Jesuit Garden
Part III: Designs of the imagination
13 The dream of Raphael
14 Alexander Seton, his house, his library, his world
15 Paper gardens
16 Imaginary Baroque cities: the Chearnley circle and the Earl of Mar
17 Artificial Islands
Afterword
Bibliography
Index