Baroque Art A Topical Dictionary

Name: Baroque Art A Topical Dictionary
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ISBN: 9780313294068

ISBN-10: 0313294062

ISBN-13: 9780313294068

Edition: 1996

Authors: Irene Earls

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The major topics painted and sculpted during the 17th century are featured here. Baroque artists chose stories not only from the Bible but also from mythology; these are not included in art history texts. In this volume, one finds the primary sources: The Golden Legend, the Bible, Ovid, and Plutarch, to name a few. Each entry concludes with an example of a work depicting the topic under examination (Diana Hunting, Lot and His Daughters, for instance) along with a readily available source where the work is pictured. The only reference of its type for art students, this is a companion piece for the author's earlier Renaissance Art: A Topical Dictionary (Greenwood, 1987). The turbulent 17th…

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List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 9/24/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction


Preface


Dictionary


Appendix: List of Popes of the Baroque Age


Appendix: List of Artists


Bibliography


Index