'Baroque and Rococo' is the latest addition to Phaidon's celebrated and respected Arts and Ideas series. It is a thorough introduction encompassing the breadth of architecture, interior design, furniture, ceramics, garden landscaping, and fine arts over 200 years.
'Baroque and Rococo' is the latest addition to Phaidon's celebrated and respected Arts and Ideas series. It is a thorough introduction encompassing th...
Between Renaissance and Baroque is a stunning achievement - the first book to be written about the original painting commissions of the Jesuits in Rome. Offering a uniquely comprehensive and comparative analysis of the paintings and stuccoes which adorned all of the Jesuit foundations in the city during their first half century of existence, the study treats some of the most crucial monuments of late Renaissance painting including the original decorations of the church of the Ges? and the Collegio Romano, and the martyrdom frescoes at S. Stefano Rotondo.
Based on extensive...
Between Renaissance and Baroque is a stunning achievement - the first book to be written about the original painting commissions of the Je...
"Art in Time" is the first book to embed art movements within the larger context of politics and history. Global in scope and featuring an innovative present‐to‐past arrangement, the book s accessible text looks back on the most significant art styles and movements, from the present day to antiquity.
Pages of historical photographs, documents, newspaper headlines, and other ephemera evoke the times in which styles and movements arose. The book opens with The Information Age (Internet Art, Neo‐Expressionaism, Arte Povera) and closes with The Classical Age (Roman wall...
"Art in Time" is the first book to embed art movements within the larger context of politics and history. Global in scope and featuring an innovati...
