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Baroque and Rococo : Art and Culture

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ISBN-10: 0810941082

ISBN-13: 9780810941083

Edition: 2000

Authors: Vernon H. Minor

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The author explores the styles, institutions, cities and genres that shaped this period's great artistic outpouring. Baroque and Rococo captures the cultural currents of the time from Counter Reformation to Lois XIV's Versailles to bourgeois Amsterdam.
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Book details

Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.476
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Baroque and Rococo: Idea and Image
Setting the Stage: Social, Cultura and Artistic Institutions
The Baroque Church: Setting for Mystery, Propaganda, and Worship
Sacred Interiors: Papal Tombs, Altarpieces, and Ceiling Paintings
Visual Rhetoric: Styles in the Baroque and Rococo
The "Minor Arts": Portraits, Still Lifes, and Genre Painting
Landscapes and Views: Depictions of the Natural and Manmade World
Town and Country Planning: Rome, Amsterdam, and Versailles
Domestic Spaces: Interiors and Gardens
Epilogue: The Baroque and Rococo in Theory
Chronology of the Baroque and Rococo 1600-1760
Glossary
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index