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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Baroque & Rococo: Idea & Image | |
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| Defining Periods in Art History | |
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| Style, Rhetoric, Genres | |
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| Style | |
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| Rhetoric | |
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| Genre | |
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| Topics | |
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| Baroque | |
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| Concettismo | |
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| Meraviglia | |
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| Spectacle | |
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| Quadratura, Quadro Riportato, & Di Sotto in Su | |
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| Box: The Wolfflin Principles | |
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| Rococo | |
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| Good Taste | |
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| The Place of Love: the Grove & the Bower | |
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| The Pastoral/Arcadian | |
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| The Place of Excitement (locus uberrimus) | |
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| Tranquillity (otium) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Setting the Stage: Social, Cultural, & Artistic Institutions | |
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| Europe in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries | |
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| Italy: the Papacy & the Church | |
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| Pre-Baroque Italy | |
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| Box: Trial before the Holy Tribunal, July 18, 1573 | |
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| The Council of Trent | |
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| Rome | |
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| Patronage | |
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| Italian Academies | |
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| Spain, France, & England: Monarchy | |
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| Spain | |
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| The Image of Philip IV | |
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| France | |
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| The Image of the King | |
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| The French Royal Academy | |
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| England | |
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| The Royal Academy of London | |
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| The Northern Netherlands: Capitalism | |
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| The Dutch Art World | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Baroque Church: Setting for Mystery, Propaganda, & Worship | |
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| Box: Charles Borromeo's Instructions for Building & Decorating Churches, 1577 | |
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| Rome | |
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| The Jesuit Church: Il Gesu | |
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| The Rebuilding of St. Peter's | |
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| Baroque Spaces | |
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| The Church as Theater: Sant'Andrea al Quirinale | |
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| The Church as Concetto: Sant'Ivo della Sapienza | |
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| Ecclesiastical Architecture as Baroque Disegno: Santa Maria della Pace | |
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| Northern Italy & Venice | |
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| Baroque Architecture of the Marvelous: Chapel of the Holy Shroud, Turin | |
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| The Church as Votive Offering: Santa Maria della Salute | |
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| France | |
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| The Church as Commemoration: Val-de-Grace | |
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| The Reassertion of Roman Baroque: Church of the Invalides, Paris | |
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| England | |
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| The Rebuilding of London: St. Paul's Cathedral | |
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| Austria and Germany | |
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| Imperial Style: The Karlskirche, Vienna | |
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| The Church as Pilgrimage Center: Die Wies, Bavaria | |
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| Spain & the New World | |
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| Late Baroque: Cathedral of Granada & Santiago de Compostela | |
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| Baroque & Rococo in Central & South America | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sacred Interiors: Papal Tombs, Altarpieces, & Ceiling Paintings | |
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| The Papal Tomb | |
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| Altars & Altarpieces | |
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| Gothic & Renaissance Altarpieces | |
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| Baroque & Rococo Altarpieces | |
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| From Titian to Carracci | |
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| Caravaggio | |
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| Reni | |
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| Bernini | |
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| Vouet | |
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| La Tour | |
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| El Greco | |
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| Murillo | |
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| Deshays | |
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| Rubens | |
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| Tiepolo | |
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| Villalpando | |
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| Church Ceilings | |
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| Sant'Andrea, Rome | |
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| Sant'Ignazio, Rome | |
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| Box: Jesuit Missions | |
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| Santa Cecilia, Rome | |
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| Church of the Invalides, Paris | |
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| Birnau Pilgrimage Church, Austria | |
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| Papal Palace Ceilings | |
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| The Palazzo Barberini, Rome | |
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| The Palazzo Altieri, Rome | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Visual Rhetoric: Styles in the Baroque & Rococo | |
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| Rhetorical Contrasts in Italy | |
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| Mannerism | |
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| Bolognese Classicism | |
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| Subversive Tenebrism | |
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| Box: Violence & Gender in the Baroque | |
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| Baroque as Spectacle | |
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| The Barocchetto: The "Little Baroque" of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Baroque in Flanders | |
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| Rubens | |
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| Van Dyck | |
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| Baroque Rhetoric in France: Classicism & Tenebrism | |
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| The Rococo in Eighteenth-Century France | |
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| Watteau | |
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| Boucher | |
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| Fragonard | |
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| The Northern Netherlands | |
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| Rembrandt: Chiaroscuro & Mystery | |
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| Hals, Leyster, Vermeer, & the Art of the "Uncontrived" | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The "Minor Arts": Portraits, Still Lifes, & Genre Painting | |
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| Portraits | |
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| Box: Intellectual & Scientific Currents of the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Baroque Portraits: Images of Power | |
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| De Champaigne | |
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| Rubens | |
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| Van Dyck | |
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| Bernini | |
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| Baciccio (Giovanni Battista Gaulli) | |
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| Late Baroque & Rococo Portraits: The Cult of Sensibility | |
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| Hals | |
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| Boucher | |
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| Vigee Le Brun | |
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| Reynolds | |
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| Gainsborough | |
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| Self-Portraits | |
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| Rembrandt | |
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| Rubens | |
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| Gentileschi | |
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| Poussin | |
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| Carriera | |
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| Still Life | |
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| Still Lifes in Southern Europe | |
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| Dutch Still Lifes | |
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| Still Lifes of the French Rococo | |
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| Genre Painting | |
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| Southern Europe: Velazquez & Ribera | |
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| Box: Beyond Genre: Velazquez' Las Meninas | |
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| France: Louis Le Nain | |
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| The Dutch Republic: de Hooch, Steen, & Vermeer | |
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| Rococo France: Chardin | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Landscapes & Views: Depictions of the Natural & Manmade World | |
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| Landscapes | |
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| Precursors of the Baroque Landscape | |
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| The Classical Landscape in Baroque Italy | |
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| Poussin | |
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| Claude | |
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| Rosa's Italian Landscape of the Sublime | |
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| Rubens: Pride of Ownership | |
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| Dutch Landscape: a Democratic Topography | |
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| Jan van Goyen | |
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| Ruisdael | |
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| The Woodland, Landed Estate, & Classical Landscape in British Painting | |
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| Gainsborough | |
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| Wilson | |
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| Box: The Pastoral | |
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| Arcadia in Eighteenth-Century France | |
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| Views | |
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| Italian Views (I): Rome | |
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| The Grand Tour | |
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| Box: The Imaginary View: Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Prisons | |
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| Italian Views (II): Venice | |
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| Dutch Views | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Town & Country Planning: Rome, Amsterdam, & Versailles | |
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| Rome | |
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| Palaces | |
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| The Palazzo Barberini | |
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| The Corsini Palace | |
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| Fountains | |
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| The Moses Fountain | |
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| The Fountain of the Four Rivers | |
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| Amsterdam | |
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| Canals, Houses & Civic Buildings | |
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| Versailles: the French Royal Chateau | |
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| Grounds & Facade | |
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| Box: The Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon | |
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| The Hall of Mirrors | |
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| Domestic Spaces: Interiors & Gardens | |
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| Painting & Interior Design | |
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| Dutch Baroque Interiors | |
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| French Rococo Interiors | |
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| Box: The Dissemination of Images | |
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| Garden Design | |
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| The Villa Borghese, Rome | |
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| Vaux-le-Vicomte, near Paris | |
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| Petworth Park, England | |
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| Epilogue: The Baroque & Rococo in Theory | |
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| Some Aspects of Baroque Theory | |
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| Guercino's Change of Style: A Case Study | |
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| Theoretical Disputes in the Academies | |
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| Roger de Piles & Rococo Theory | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Chronology of the Baroque & Rococo 1600-1760 | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Picture Credits | |
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| Index | |