Bernini
Title | Bernini PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 1990 |
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Roman Baroque
Title | Roman Baroque PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Blunt |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-02 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781843681199 |
The Baroque, for many the most thrilling architectural style ever created, was born in Rome and reached its apogee in the work of three geniuses born in the 1590s--Bernini, Borromini and Pietro da Cortona. Perhaps the greatest student of the style was Anthony Blunt, who spent a lifetime studying and teaching the work of these architects and their importance to us now. This elegant and concise introduction to the style and its flowering in Rome was first published in an anthology of essays in 1978, not long before Blunt died, and represents a summation of his teaching. It is republished here separately, copiously illustrated with contemporary engraved views and measured drawings. Many of these ravishing images have not been republished since the beginning of the 18th century.
The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome
Title | The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Alois Riegl |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1606060414 |
Delivered at the turn of the twentieth century, Riegl's groundbreaking lectures called for the Baroque period to be judged by its own rules and not merely as a period of decline.
"When All of Rome was Under Construction"
Title | "When All of Rome was Under Construction" PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy Metzger Habel |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0271055731 |
"Analyzes the politics and economics of architecture and the building process in seventeenth-century Rome. Explores topics ranging from the financing of construction to the availability of materials and personnel"--Provided by publisher.
Critical Perspectives on Roman Baroque Sculpture
Title | Critical Perspectives on Roman Baroque Sculpture PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Colantuono |
Publisher | Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Examines seventeenth-century sculpture in Rome. Focuses on questions of historical context and criticism, including the interaction of theory and practice, the creative roles of sculptors and patrons, the relationship of sculpture to antique models and to contemporary painting, and contextual meaning and reception.
Power and Religion in Baroque Rome
Title | Power and Religion in Baroque Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Rietbergen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 455 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 904741795X |
In ten chapters, partly case-studies, this monograph analyzes the (new) ways in which cultural manifestations were used to create the necessary preconditions for (religious) policy and power in the Rome of Urban VIII (1623-1644). It was the intensified interaction between culture and power-politics that created what we now call ‘the Baroque’. Based on a rich variety of, hitherto largely unexplored, primary sources, the book addresses the basic issues of papal power in the post-Tridentine period. It does not study actual papal politics, but rather the cultural forms that were essential to the representation and legitimatization of the papacy’s power, both secular and religious and that (co-)determined the effectiviness of papal policy. Precisely during Urban’s long pontificate, the manifold, always imaginative and often unexpected uses of power representation became, in the end, not so much a series of cultural forms as, in a sense, the structure of early modern (Roman) society.
Roman Baroque Sculpture
Title | Roman Baroque Sculpture PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Montagu |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300053661 |
Draws on contemporary biographies and a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival material to illuminate the position and practice of the Baroque sculptor, to enable the reader to appreciate, understand and evaluate the sculptural monuments of the Roman Baroque.