Baroque Architecture 1600-1750

Name: Baroque Architecture 1600-1750
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ISBN: 9782080300621

ISBN-10: 2080300628

ISBN-13: 9782080300621

Edition: N/A

Authors: Frederique Lemerle, Yves Pauwels

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This book, beautifully illustrated and written by two authorities on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art and architecture, leads the reader through the major styles and shifts of baroque architecture throughout Europe and beyond, and provides a fascinating account of how baroque developed in relation to the unique urban culture of each nation where the style became popular. To admire the undulating facade of Rome's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, to walk through the Palace of Versailles' lavish succession of rooms, or to marvel at the seemingly endless array of columns and windows of St. Petersburg's Winter Palace is to observe architecture in the act of glorifying the key powers of the…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Publisher: Flammarion et Cie
Publication date: 11/18/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.784
Language: English



"Baroque"?



Figures of Effectiveness


New urban sensibilities, new cities: the age of town planning


The apogee of military architecture


The circulation of ideas and forms: architecture on paper



Italian Architectural Rhetoric


Rome, the great workshop of the Baroque


Baroque Italy



Architecture a la francaise


Changes in taste


The acme of the French manner



The Hispanic World


Architecture in Spain and in Portugal


The South American colonies



Baroque in Northern and Eastern Europe


Architecture in the Germanic lands and Eastern Europe


Northern Europe


The Close of the Baroque Era


Bibliography


Index