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Book Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture written by Lilian H. Zirpolo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on famous artists, sculptors, architects, patrons, and other historical figures, and events.

Book The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome

Download or read book The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome written by Alois Riegl and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delivered at the turn of the twentieth century, Riegl's groundbreaking lectures called for the Baroque period to be judged by its own rules and not merely as a period of decline.

Book Italian Baroque Art

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  • Author : Susan M. Dixon
  • Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
  • Release : 2008-08-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Italian Baroque Art written by Susan M. Dixon and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008-08-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian art from 1600-1750, highlighting the key debates with which art historians continue to grapple. Explores themes including: style or the visuality of art; artistic practices and production; artistic communication as projected and experienced; and artists’ interactions with the ancient world and with the new sciences Examines the work of key painters, architects and sculptors from this period, including Caravaggio, Bernini, Guarini and Poussin Published in the expanding Blackwell Anthologies in Art History series

Book Rococo

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  • Author : Victoria Charles
  • Publisher : Parkstone International
  • Release : 2023-12-28
  • ISBN : 1783103906
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Rococo written by Victoria Charles and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term ‘Rococo’. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe. Extravagant and light, Rococo responded perfectly to the spontaneity of the aristocracy of the time. In many aspects, this art was linked to its predecessor, Baroque, and it is thus also referred to as late Baroque style. While artists such as Tiepolo, Boucher and Reynolds carried the style to its apogee, the movement was often condemned for its superficiality. In the second half of the 18th century, Rococo began its decline. At the end of the century, facing the advent of Neoclassicism, it was plunged into obscurity. It had to wait nearly a century before art historians could restore it to the radiance of its golden age, which is rediscovered in this work by Klaus H. Carl and Victoria Charles.

Book A Superb Baroque

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  • Author : Jonathan Bober
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-04-28
  • ISBN : 0691206511
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book A Superb Baroque written by Jonathan Bober and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genoa completed its transformation from a faded maritime power into a thriving banking center for Europe in the seventeenth century. The wealth accumulated by its leading families spurred investment in the visual arts on an enormous scale. This volume explores how artists both foreign and native created a singularly rich and extravagant expression of the baroque in works of extraordinary variety, sumptuousness, and exuberance. This art, however, has remained largely hidden behind the facades of the city's palaces, with few works, apart from those by the school's great expatriates, found beyond its borders. As a result, the Genoese baroque has been insufficiently considered or appreciated.0Lavishly illustrated, 'A Superb Baroque' is comprehensive, encompassing all the major media and participants. Presented are some 140 select works by the celebrated foreigners drawn to the city and its flourishing environment. Offering three levels of exploration-essays that frame and interpret, section introductions that characterize principal currents and stages, and texts that elucidate individual works-this volume is by far the most extensive study of the Genoese baroque in the English language.00Exhibition: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA (03.05.-16.08.2020) / Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy (03.10.2020 - 10.01.2021).

Book A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

Download or read book A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art written by Babette Bohn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history. Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to 1700 Divided into five broad conceptual headings: Social-Historical Factors in Artistic Production; Creative Process and Social Stature of the Artist; The Object: Art as Material Culture; The Message: Subjects and Meanings; and The Viewer, the Critic, and the Historian: Reception and Interpretation as Cultural Discourse Covers many topics not typically included in collections of this nature, such as Judaism and the arts, architectural treatises, the global Renaissance in arts, the new natural sciences and the arts, art and religion, and gender and sexuality Features essays on the arts of the domestic life, sexuality and gender, and the art and production of tapestries, conservation/technology, and the metaphor of theater Focuses on Western and Central Europe and that territory's interactions with neighboring civilizations and distant discoveries Includes illustrations as well as links to images not included in the book

Book Readings in the Western Humanities

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  • Author : Roy T. Matthews
  • Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
  • Release : 2003-05
  • ISBN : 9780072556315
  • Pages : 637 pages

Download or read book Readings in the Western Humanities written by Roy T. Matthews and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chronologically organized introduction to the Western humanities (art, music, history, literature, and drama) establishes the historical context of each era before the arts are discussed. Hundreds of illustrations appear throughout the text, "Personal Perspectives" boxes bring to life the events of the day, and brief sections at the end of each chapter describe the cultural legacy of the era discussed. Volume II ofThe Western Humanitiescovers the period from the Renaissance through the present.

Book Rethinking the Baroque

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  • Author : Helen Hills
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780754666851
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Rethinking the Baroque written by Helen Hills and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retrieving the term 'baroque' from the margins of art history, scholars from a range of disciplines demonstrate that it is a productive means to engage with art history and theory. Rather than attempting to provide a survey of baroque as a chronological or geographical conception, the essays here attempt critical re-engagement with the term 'baroque'-its promise, its limits, and its overlooked potential-in relation to the visual arts.

Book Baroque   Rococo

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  • Author : Gauvin Alexander Bailey
  • Publisher : Phaidon Press
  • Release : 2012-08-20
  • ISBN : 9780714857428
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Baroque Rococo written by Gauvin Alexander Bailey and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful exploration of arts across the world during these dynamic eras.

Book Baroque

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  • Author : Rolf Toman
  • Publisher : H.F.Ullmann Publishing
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9783848004034
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Baroque written by Rolf Toman and published by H.F.Ullmann Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of moving works of art from various European countries.

Book Italian Baroque Sculpture

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  • Author : Bruce Boucher
  • Publisher : Thames & Hudson
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780500203071
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Italian Baroque Sculpture written by Bruce Boucher and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian baroque sculpture often has been criticized for portraying a sham world, distracting the spectator from its spiritual poverty by dazzling technical displays. Bruce Boucher offers a fresh view of this rich and varied subject, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the births of 17th-century artists Bernini and Algardi. 200 illustrations. 35 in color.

Book Renaissance and Baroque

Download or read book Renaissance and Baroque written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baroque and Rococo

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  • Author : Vernon Hyde Minor
  • Publisher : Prentice Hall Press
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780131833630
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Baroque and Rococo written by Vernon Hyde Minor and published by Prentice Hall Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period 1600-1760 in Europe was remarkable for its artistic diversity, encompassing the dramatic exuberance of Bernini, the psychological acuity of Rembrandt, and the sparkling brio of Boucher. Yet the shared principles, concerns, and attitudes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries created a kind of internationalism that justifies a survey of the era as a whole. Traditional surveys of the period divide their material strictly by countries and chronological periods. By contrast, Vernon Minor looks at the prevalent themes of Baroque and Rococo artistic production through the lens of the dominant institutions of the day. The ideologies of the Counter-Reformation Church, the court of Louis Quatorze, and the mercantile economy of the Calvinist Dutch are implicit in much of the painting, sculpture, and architecture of the epoch. In a series of connecting essays, readers will encounter perceptive discussions of ecclesiastical altarpieces, ceiling paintings, and papal tombs; church and palace architecture; mythological and history paintings; landscapes and city views; portraits, still lifes, and genre scenes; Baroque town planning and Rococo domestic settings -- all seen in the context of contemporary artists, academies, patrons, critics, and beholders. While eschewing outmoded approaches to the subject, the author supplies readings of many of the acknowledged masterpieces of the day emanating from England, France, the Low Countries, Italy, and Spain.

Book Baroque

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  • Author : Peter J. Burgard
  • Publisher : Wilhelm Fink Verlag
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9783846764008
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Baroque written by Peter J. Burgard and published by Wilhelm Fink Verlag. This book was released on 2019 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is the Baroque? Where did it come from and where did it go? Why do we have to ask these questions? Because art historians seem largely satisfied with their answers and most scholars of German literature are not satisfied, yet have stopped asking.This book discerns in the Baroque an aesthetic phenomenon that crosses both media and national boundaries in its celebration of excess and its disintegration of system, unity, and identity. The compositional principles and theoretical implications of the Baroque, as it first arose in Italian art, find expression in German poetics, drama, poetry, and narrative ? expression accessible only through resolute close reading. Readings of Bernini, Borromini, Velázquez, Rubens, Fracanzano, and de Hooch precipitate readings of Opitz, Gryphius, Fleming, Zesen, Hoffmannswaldau, and Grimmelshausen, demonstrating that seventeenth-century German literature both is Baroque and confirms what the Baroque is."--Page 4 of cover.

Book Flemish and Dutch Baroque Painting

Download or read book Flemish and Dutch Baroque Painting written by Uta Hasekamp and published by Koenemann. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though it was a time of near financial ruin in Flanders, Baroque art flourished during this period thanks to the patronage of an arts-minded aristocracy. Meanwhile, the Dutch had become rich from trade and the desire for art found its way into almost every social class in the Netherlands. The naturalistic traditions shared by the two halves of the Low Countries experienced a renaissance of their own at this time.

Book The Illustrated History of Art

Download or read book The Illustrated History of Art written by David Piper and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique visual resource with over 2,000 illustrations.

Book Baroque

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  • Author : Rolf Toman
  • Publisher : H.F.Ullmann Publishing Gmbh
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9783848000395
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Baroque written by Rolf Toman and published by H.F.Ullmann Publishing Gmbh. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books are a modern fitness studio for the brain! A total of 300 diverse puzzles help to keep your mind flexible and train your mental stamina in logical and mathematical thinking. Time and time again, the collection of widely-varied games of mental agility contained in these two volumes will set you new tasks to challenge your grey cells! Accept the challenge posed by these two training programs and discover the fun of finding your own logical path through the puzzle labyrinth! After the global hit Ars Sacra, Rolf Toman and his team embark on a journey once more. The Palace of Versailles and St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican are the outstanding buildings from this epoch. There are undreamed-of jewels in Europe and America, the New World, waiting for discovery. Magnificent libraries, vaults of science or mysterious gardens, skilled works of porcelain and illusionistic painting, to name just a few aspects of this complex epoch. With his passion and meticulousness, photographer Achim Bednorz succeeded to get details in front of his camera that cannot even be seen on the original locally. The photographs that are exclusive for this volume are particularly well-presented in their large format. The author Barbara Borngasser wrote her take on Baroque history to fit, and swiftly takes the reader into the Great World Theater, the Theatrum Mundi. SELLING POINTS: Completely new breath-taking photographs by Achim Bednorz The composition will pull the reader into the book emotionally Completely new texts by the editor of bestseller Ars Sacra (Rolf Toman) Contains the most current scientific knowledge on the topic Lavish layout and high quality look like Ars Sacra 800 photographs