Transformations: Baroque and Rococo in the Age of Absolutism and the Church Triumphant

ISBN-13: 9781138038950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 968 str.

Christopher Tadgell

Opis

Unprecedented in scope – like its companion volume on the High Renaissance, Mannerism – this sixth volume in the Architecture in Context series traces the development of architecture and decoration in the 17th and early 18th centuries – particularly the transformation of rationalist Classical ideals into the emotive, highly theatrical style known as Baroque and the further development away from architectonic principles to the free-ranging decorative style known as Rococo.

Recenzje

‘From Cortona’s exciting innovations in Italy, to the last gasp of the Baroque in Havana, Christopher Tadgell has produced an exhilarating survey of this most dynamic of styles, in the Old World and the New, that has no rival in scope or authority.’ - Alastair Laing (formerly Curator of Pictures & Sculpture, The National Trust)

Spis treści

Dynastic Conflict in the Age of Absolutism  Cross Currents of Painting in a Modernist Era  Part 1: Seminal Italians  1.1. Inception of the High Baroque in Rome  1.2. The Style of the Church Triumphant  1.3. Roman Baroque at its Apogee  1.4. Venice  1.5. Piedmont  Part 2: Seminal French  2.1. From Richelieu to Mazarin  2.2. Louis XIV and French Ascendancy  2.3. Régence and the Early Years of Louis XV  Part 3: Northern Protestants  3.1. The Dutch and Scandinavians  3.2. Britain  Part 4: Divided Centre and Orthodox East  4.1. Advance of Baroque between Two Wars  4.2. Imperial Baroque and its Austrian Monastic Derivative  4.3. Advanced Baroque and the advent of Rococo  4.4. Exceptional Talent in Bohemia and Bavaria  4.5. From Augustan Dresden to Warsaw  4.6. From Berlin to Bayreuth  4.7. Russia: From Moscow to Saint Petersburg  Part 5: The Catholic South and its New Worlds  5.1. Habsburg to Bourbon in Naples and Sicily  5.2. Habsburg to Bourbon in Spain  5.3. Palaces of the Southern Bourbons  5.4. The Golden Age of Portugal at Home and Abroad  5.5. Bourbon America  Glossary  Further Reading  Index