| Forewords | VI |
| Principles followed in the New Edition | VII |
| Map | VIII |
| 1. | Introduction | I |
| Seicento Devotion and Religious Imagery | |
| Rhetoric and Baroque Procedure | |
| Patronage | |
| 2. | Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) | 5 |
| Introduction | 5 |
| Sculpture | 6 |
| Stylistic Development | |
| Sculpture with One and Many Views | |
| Colour and Light | |
| The Transcending of Traditional Modes | |
| New Iconographical Types | |
| The Role of the 'Concetto' | |
| Working Procedure | |
| Painting | 22 |
| Architecture | 23 |
| Ecclesiastical Buildings | |
| Secular Buildings | |
| The Piazza of St Peter's | |
| 3. | Francesco Borromini (1599-1667) | 39 |
| S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane | |
| S. Ivo della Sapienza | |
| S. Giovanni in Laterano, S. Agnese, S. Andrea delle Fratte, and Minor Ecclesiastical Works | |
| The Oratory of St Philip Neri | |
| Domestic Buildings | |
| The Collegio di Propaganda Fide | |
| 4. | Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669) | 63 |
| Introduction | 63 |
| Architecture | 63 |
| The Early Works | |
| S.S. Martina e Luca | |
| S. Maria della Pace, S. Maria in Via Lata, Projects, and Minor Works | |
| Painting and Decoration | 74 |
| The Early Works | |
| The Gran Salone of the Palazzo Barberini | |
| The Frescoes of the Palazzo Pitti and the Late Work | |
| 5. | 'High Baroque Classicism': Sacchi, Algardi, and Duquesnoy | 85 |
| Andrea Sacchi (1599-1661) | 85 |
| The Controversy between Sacchi and Cortona | |
| Alessandro Algardi (1598-1654) | 88 |
| Francesco Duquesnoy (1597-1643) | 94 |
| 6. | Architectural Currents of the High Baroque | 99 |
| Rome | 99 |
| Carlo Rainaldi | |
| Martino Loughi the Younger, Vincenzo della Greca, Antonio del Grande, and Giovan Antonio de' Rossi | |
| Architecture outside Rome | 110 |
| Baldassare Longhena (1598-1682) | |
| Florence and Naples: Silvani and Fanzago | |
| 7. | Trends in High Baroque Sculpture | 121 |
| Rome | 121 |
| The First Generation | |
| The Second Generation | |
| Tombs with the Effigy in Prayer | |
| Minor Masters of the later Seventeenth Century | |
| Bernini's Studio and the Position of Sculptors in Rome | |
| Sculpture outside Rome | 132 |
| 8. | High Baroque Painting and its Aftermath | 134 |
| Rome | 134 |
| Baroque Classicism; Archaizing Classicism; Crypto-Romanticism | |
| The Great Fresco Cycles | |
| Carlo Maratti (1625-1713) | |
| Painting outside Rome | 147 |
| Bologna, Florence, Venice, and Lombardy | |
| Genoa | |
| Naples | |
| Abbreviations Used in the Notes | 168 |
| Notes | 169 |
| Index | 184 |