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Baroques

Giovanni Careri ; with photographs by Ferrante Ferranti ; [translated from the French by Alexandra Bonfante-Warren]

Princeton University Press, c2003

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Baroques

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 244) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

From Rome to St. Petersburg, Portugal to Brazil, the Baroque was the first art movement to span not only countries but distant continents. This stunningly illustrated book takes us on a breathtaking pilgrimage through its endless variations over some two hundred years, beginning in the early seventeenth century. Readers are treated to such wonders as Bernini's intensely powerful sculptures and his immense colonnade on St. Peter's Square, imposing palace facades, painted ceilings, crucifixes, angels, demons, piazzas, villas, gardens, and more. Though once viewed in Europe as decadent compared to Renaissance art, the Baroque is seen today as the ultimate manifestation of a style that expanded the bounds of reality and engendered a "culture of visualization," prefiguring the modern age. Combining Ferrante Ferranti's magnificent color photographs, many never before published, with Giovanni Careri's absorbing prose account of the Baroque in chapters arranged by theme, Baroques marks the first time the topic has been treated so comprehensively, going well beyond Italy as far as colonial Latin America. The materials used in Baroque churches, palaces, gardens, and cities were meant to dazzle-but they did much more. Whether marble, stucco, or gilded bronze, each in its own way captures the fleeting interplay between the overt splendor of fireworks and the secret, conceptual complexity of allegory. The Baroque is an art of passions and ecstasies, but it is also a political art: it conveys an image of power charged with new energy, an image that inspired awe, fear, and respect. Above all, it is a total art: painting, sculpture, and architecture come together in Baroques as a whole that invites the reader into its transforming universe.

目次

Introduction 7 A Bel Composto 27 The Place of the Viewer 61 Ecstatics 81 Angels 95 Vanities 125 Images of Power 133 Nature, Landscapes, Gardens, and Fountains 173 Ceremonies and Entertainments 213 Affetti 231 Glossary 243 Bibliography 244 Index of Monuments and Works of Art 245 Photography and Translation Credits 248

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA64104429
  • ISBN
    • 0691116903
  • LCCN
    2003050431
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    fre
  • 出版地
    Princeton, N.J.
  • ページ数/冊数
    248 p.
  • 大きさ
    34 cm
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