| Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting: Vico and Neapolitan Painting Subjects: Painting -- Philosophy; Art and philosophy -- Italy -- History -- 18th century; Painting Italian -- Italy -- Naples -- 18th century; Painting Baroque -- Italy -- Naples; Vico Giambattista 1668–1744; Truth; How the philosophy of Giambattista Vico was influenced by eighteenth-century Neopolitan painting Malcolm Bull is university lecturer in fine art at the University of Oxford. His previous books include Anti-Nietzsche , The Mirror of the Gods , and Seeing Things Hidden . |