Richard Spear
Publications

  • Books and Exhibition Catalogues

    1. Caravaggio and His Followers, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1971.

    2. Renaissance and Baroque Paintings from the Sciarra and Fiano Collections, University Park, PA, and Rome, Italy, 1972. (Winner of the Daria Borghese gold medal for the most important book of the year dealing with a Roman topic).

    3. Caravaggio and His Followers (rev. ed.), Harper & Row, New York, 1975.

    4. Domenichino, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1982 (2 vols.).

    5. Domenichino, 1581-1641 (exhibition catalogue), Palazzo Venezia, Rome, 1996: the catalogue of paintings, pp. 368-473, and an essay, "Domenichino e Viola," pp. 163-69.

    6. The "Divine" Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni, Yale University Press, 1997.

    7. Seeing Double: Two Versions of Guercino's "Joseph and Potiphar's Wife" (exhibition catalogue), Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, 1999 (edited and with an introduction by RES).

  • Articles and Reviews

    1. "A 1490 `Harrowing of Hell'," Record of the Art Museum of Princeton University, XXI, no. 1, 1962, pp. 2-9.

    2. "Guido Reni at Princeton," Record of the Art Museum of Princeton University, XXII, no. 2, 1963, pp. 35-44.

    3. "The Source of an Early Falsification of Poussin," The Burlington Magazine, CVI, 1964, pp. 232, 234.

    4. "The `Raising of Lazarus': Caravaggio and the Sixteenth Century Tradition," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LXV, 1965, pp. 65-70.

    5. "The Literary Source of Poussin's `Realm of Flora'," The Burlington Magazine, CVII, 1965, pp. 563-69.

    6. "Baciccio's Pendant Paintings of `Venus and Adonis'," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, XXIII, 1966, pp. 98-112.

    7. "Domenichino's Early Frescoes at S. Onofrio," Arte Antica e Moderna, nos. 3436, 1966, pp. 223-31.

    8. "Domenichino and the Farnese `Loggia del Giardino'," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LXIX, 1967, pp. 169-75.

    9. "The Early Drawings of Domenichino at Windsor Castle and Some Drawings by the Carracci," The Art Bulletin, XLIX, 1967, pp. 52-57.

    10. "Some Domenichino Cartoons," Master Drawings, V, 1967, pp. 14458.

    11. "Review of Domenichino by Evelina Borea," The Art Bulletin, XLIX, 1967, pp. 360-68.

    12. "Baciccio's `Venus and Adonis': A Postscript," The Burlington Magazine, CX, 1968, pp. 37-39.

    13. "Review of Nicholas Poussin by Anthony Blunt," The French Review, XLI, 1968, pp. 763-64.

    14. "Review of French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry by Millard Meiss," The French Review, XLI, 1968, pp. 902-03.

    15. "Preparatory Drawings by Domenichino," Master Drawings, VI, 1968, pp. 111-31.

    16. "The Cappella della Strada Cupa: a Forgotten Domenichino Chapel," The Burlington Magazine, CXI, 1969, pp. 12-23.

    17. "Algardi's `St. Proculus'," The Burlington Magazine, CXI, 1969, pp. 220, 222-23.

    18. "A `Landscape with Flight into Egypt' by Domenichino," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, XXVI, 1969, pp. 91-102.

    19. "Review of French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Boucicaut Master by Millard Meiss," The French Review, XLIII, 1970, pp. 536-37.

    20. "A Drawing of the `Virgin and Child' at Düsseldorf," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, XXVIII, 1971, pp. 177-82.

    21. "Caravaggisti at the Palazzo Pitti," The Art Quarterly, XXXIV, 1971, pp. 108-10.

    22. "A Note on Caravaggio's `Boy with a Vase of Roses'," The Burlington Magazine, CXIII, 1971, pp. 470-71, 473.

    23. "The Pseudo-Caravaggisti," Art News, LXX, 1971, November, pp. 3841, 93-96.

    24. "On the Relationship between Subject and Decorative Modes in Baroque Fresco Cycles," Evolution générale et développements régionaux en histoire de l'art (Actes du XXIIe Congrès International d'Histoire de l'Art, Budapest, 1969), Budapest, 1972, II, pp. 13-16.

    25. "Jacopo da Empoli's `St. Ivo with Widows and Orphans'," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, XXX, 1973, pp. 63-73.

    26. "Unknown Pictures by the Caravaggisti (with Notes on `Caravaggio and His Followers')," Storia dell'arte, no. 14, 1972, pp. 149-61.

    27. "Notes of Franz von Rohden and his Christ Disputing with the Doctors in the Temple," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, XXXI, 1973-74, pp. 92-105.

    28. "L'Inghilterra ed il Seicento," Arte illustrata, VII, 1974, pp. 219-34, 248-53.

    29. "Bolognese Paintings in Florence," The Burlington Magazine, CXVII, 1975, pp. 503-08.

    30. "Studies in Conservation and Connoisseurship: Problematic Paintings by Manfredi, Saraceni and Guercino," The Dayton Art Institute Bulletin, XXXIV, 1975, no. 1, pp. 5-17, pls. I-XVIII.

    31. "Baroque Paintings from Ligozzi to Hogarth," Apollo, CIII, 1976, pp. 106-11.

    32. "A New Book on La Tour," The Burlington Magazine, CXVIII, 1976, pp. 233-35.

    33. "Johann Liss Reconsidered," The Art Bulletin, LVIII, 1976, pp. 582-93.

    34. "Review of The International Caravaggesque Movement by Benedict Nicolson," The Burlington Magazine, CXXI, 1979, pp. 317-22.

    35. "A Late Drawing by Ludovico Carracci," Master Drawings, XVII, 1979, pp. 51-52.

    36. "Further Preparatory Drawings by Domenichino," Master Drawings, XVII, 1979, pp. 245-60.

    37. "A Forgotten Landscape Painter: Giovanni Battista Viola," The Burlington Magazine, CXXII, 1980, pp. 298-315.

    38. "Princeton: Italian Baroque Paintings," The Burlington Magazine, CXXII, 1980, pp. 716-20.

    39. "Domenichino at Fano and his Bolognese Sojourn," in Le arti a Bologna e in Emilia dal XVI al XVII secolo (Atti del XXIV Congresso Internazionale di Storia dell'Arte, 4), Bologna, 1982, pp. 173-78.

    40. "Plagiary or Reinterpretation?", Art News, LXXXII, 1983, September, pp. 121-23.

    41. "Notes on Naples in the Seicento," Storia dell'arte, no. 48, 1983, pp. 127-37.

    42. "Review of Spanish Genre Painting in the Seventeenth Century by Marianna Harastzi-Takács," Times Literary Supplement, 23 March 1984, p. 318.

    43. "Stocktaking in Caravaggio Studies," The Burlington Magazine, CXXVI, 1984, pp. 162-65.

    44. "The Critical Fortune of a Realist Painter," "Baglione," and "Domenichino," in The Age of Caravaggio, Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., 1985, pp. 22-27, 90-93, 139-43.

    45. "Review of The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century by Christopher Wright," Times Literary Supplement, 28 March 1986, p. 321.

    46. "Domenichino" in The Age of Correggio and the Carracci, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., 1986, pp. 430-49 (Italian transl. in Nell'età di Correggio e dei Carracci, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, 1986).

    47. "Art History and the `Blockbuster' Exhibition," The Art Bulletin, LXVIII, 1986, pp. 358-59.

    48. "Discussion: `On Art History and the "Blockbuster" Exhibition'," The Art Bulletin, LXIX, 1987, pp. 297-98.

    49. "Leonardo, Raphael, and Caravaggio," in Light on the Eternal City (Papers in Art History from the Pennslyvania State University, II), 1987, 59-90.

    50. "Domenichino Addenda," The Burlington Magazine, CXXXI, l989, pp. 5-16.

    51. "Re-viewing the `Divine Guido'," The Burlington Magazine, CXXXI, 1989, pp. 367-72.

    52. "Images of heroic women" (review of Mary Garrard's Artemisia Gentileschi), Times Literary Supplement, 2-8 June l989, pp. 603-04.

    53. "Notes on Renaissance and Baroque Originals and Originality," in Retaining the Original: Multiple Originals, Copies, and Reproductions (Studies in the History of Art, XX, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Symposium Papers VII), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., l989, pp. 97-99.

    54. "Notes on Two Copper Paintings by Domenichino and Guido Reni," Record of the Art Museum Princeton University, XLVIII, 1989, pp. 29-36.

    55. "Reni contre Dominiquin dans la littérature d'art française du XVIIe siècle," in Rencontres de l'Ecole du Louvre. Seicento: La peinture italienne du XVIIe siècle et la France, Paris, 1990, pp. 190-98.

    56. "Review of Caravaggio's `Death of the Virgin' by Pamela Askew," Renaissance Quarterly, XLV, 1992, pp. 166-70.

    57. "La Necessità of Guido Reni," in Il luogo ed il ruolo della città di Bologna tra Europa continentale e mediterranea (Atti del Colloquio C.I.H.A., 1990), Bologna, 1992, pp. 313-40.

    58. "Domenichino: St. Catherine of Alexandria," in Splendour of the Baroque: Paintings from Bologna 1550 to 1750 (exh. cat.), Sydney, Australia, 1993, pp. 74-75.

    59. "A Pair of Landscape Paintings by Giovanni Battista Viola," The Burlington Magazine, CXXXV, 1993, pp. 762-64.

    60. "Domenichino's Will," The Burlington Magazine, CXXXVI, 1994, pp. 83-84.

    61. "Editorial Ruminations," The Art Bulletin, LXXVI, 1994, pp. 206-07.

    62. "Guercino's `Prix-fixe': Observations on Studio Practices and Art Marketing in Emilia," The Burlington Magazine, CXXXVI, 1994, pp. 592-602.

    63. "Van Dyck's Portrait of a Bearded Man," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, XLVIII, no. 2, 1995, pp. 26-45.

    64. "Guido Reni," in The Dictionary of Art, London and New York, 1996, XXVI, pp. 195-204.

    65. "Domenichino's Study for 'Christ at the Column'," Master Drawings, XXXV, 1997, pp. 189-91.

    66. "Taking Pictures: Sherrie Levine after Walker Evans," exhibition brochure, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, 1998.

    67. "The Ratta Sibyl: Replication in Domenichino's Studio" (with Hugh Brigstocke), Artibus et Historiae, no. 34, XVII, 1996 [1998], pp. 45-52.

    68. "Guido's Grace," in Docere Delectare Movere: Affetti, devozione e retorica nel linguaggio artistico del primo barocco romano, Rome, 1998, pp. 34-37.

    69. "Il mio Reni," Quadri e Sculture, VII, no. 35, 1999, March-April, pp. 34-37.

    70. "Of Reliques Innumerable" (review of Louise Rice's The Altars and Altarpieces of New St. Peter's), Times Literary Supplement, 28 May 1999, p. 18.

    71. "A Favourable Fuss" (review of three Caravaggisti exhibitions), Times Literary Supplement, 9 July 1999, pp. 18-19.

    72. "Scoundrel and Sensualist" (review of Helen Langdon's Caravaggio: a Life), The Washington Post Book World, 11 July 1999, pp. 8-9.

    73. " "(review of Simon Schama's Rembrandt's Eyes), The Washington Post Book World, 28 November 1999, p.