A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art
Author: Babette Bohn
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-03-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781444337266

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

The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome

The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome
Author: Alois Riegl
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1606060414

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.

Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture

Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture
Author: Lilian H. Zirpolo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1538111292

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.

Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture

Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture
Author: John L. Varriano
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 329
Release: 1986
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780195035483

Examines the designs of Italian buildings in the baroque and rococo architectural styles and discusses the careers of architects such as Gianlorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, and Pietra da Cortona

Italian and Spanish Art, 1600-1750

Italian and Spanish Art, 1600-1750
Author: Robert Enggass
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1992
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780810110656

The Baroque period was crucial for the development of art theory and the advancement of the artistic academy. This collection of primary sources brings this important period to life with significant documents and texts. It conveniently assembles major texts, which are otherwise available only in scattered publications. The lives of leading artists--Caravaggio, El Greco, among others---are discussed by their contemporaries, while Bellori, Galileo, Pascoli, and others write on art theory and practice. The documents provide fascinating glimpses of the period's artistic self-image.

Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art

Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art
Author: Professor Lisa M Rafanelli
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-06-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1472444736

Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. By reuniting their visual examples with important, often little-known textual sources, the authors reveal a complex relationship between visual imagery, the senses, contemporary attitudes toward gender, and the shaping of belief.

Italian Women Artists

Italian Women Artists
Author: Carole Collier Frick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Surveying the women painters, engravers and sculptors working in 16th and 17th century Italy, this text examines their artistic practices and achievements.

Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750

Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750
Author: Rudolf Wittkower
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300079395

This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes. Wittkower's text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliography. This edition will also include color illustrations for the first time. This is the first book in the three volume survey.