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| Foreword | |
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| The Case for Disruption | |
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| Bernini, Borromini, Mattia Preti, Milton, St Ignatius, Monteverdi, Fischer von Erlach, Costanzo Michela, Juvarra, thoroughfares, staircases, Sacred Mounts, St Teresa, plague columns, ceilings (Pozzo, Maulbertsch, Tiepolo) Marvell, Crashaw | |
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| Tormented Vision | |
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| Maulbertsch, Handel, Rubens, Sacred Mounts, the sketch, Cleacute;risseau, Soane, Sterne, Vittone, Borromini, convents, saints, the Sacred Heart, Messerschmidt, the cult of sensibility | |
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| The View from Above | |
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| Wren, Ragusa, Palermo, Rubens, Milton, Dryden, Vanbrugh, Jesuit expansion, Defoe, Quereacute;taro, Noto, Blandford Forum, Turin, Versailles, Schouml;nbrunn, Bucharest, Pope | |
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| The end of Heroism | |
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| Mozart and opera (Idomeneo, Cosigrave; fan tutte, La finta giardiniera), Asam brothers (Rohr, Weltenburg, Freising), Serpotta, Watteau | |
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| The world as Scenery | |
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| Congreve, Pope, the Bibiena family, Piranesi, Soane, the Gothic novel, Venice as scenery, Canaletto, Guardi, Longhena, Vanbrugh | |
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| Baroque Nature | |
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| Isola Bella, Giardino Buonacorsi, Versailles, Nymphenburg, Amalienburg, Veitshouml;schheim, graveyards, English landscape gardens, Die Wies, Vierzehnheiligen, new and exotic species, scientific drawings, encylopedias, the Academy of Lynxes, Rameau, Waldsassen, Pianta, Hogarth, Messerschmidt, Handel, Goya | |
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| Colonial Baroque | |
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| Ocotlaacute;n, tile faccedil;ades, backwaters, Sagrario Mexico City, Hindu temples, Goan Baroque, St Francis Xavier, Bolivian Jesuit sacred opera,Sant' Alessio, Santa Rosalia or The Wounded Dove, Stradella'soratorio erotico, Tepotzotlaacute;n, Salamanca, Quereacute;taro | |
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| Neo and Pseudo Baroque | |
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| Russian Baroque, Turkish Baroque, Persian Rococo, Edwardian Baroque, Linderhof, porcelain knick-knacks, '50s American cars, Jeff Koons, Richard Strauss, Beardsley, Guimard, the National Trust, Bellotto and Warsaw, Baroque pearls, Japanese Baroque, Gothic Baroque, Chinese Baroque, Hellenistic Baroque, Wouml;lfflin, Deleuze | |
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| Baroque in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Czech Cubists, Santini, T.S. Eliot, Gehry, Coop Himmeblau, Russian Constructivists, Scharoun, Ludwig Leo, Miralles | |
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| Notes | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Photographic Acknowledgements | |
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| Index | |