The trials and torments of Domenichino For the timid 17th-century artist, painting light-hearted landscapes was a way of escaping his persecutors.

ELIZABETH CROPPER The Domenichino Affair: Novelty, Imitation, and Theft in Seventeenth-Century Rome New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 266 pp.; 10 color ills., 70 b/w. $50.00 In the mid-1620s, ...