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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Bernini
Author: Roman Baroque
Author: Anthony BluntPublisher:
ISBN: 9781843681199
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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
Author: Alois RieglPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060414
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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"
Author: Dorothy Metzger HabelPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271055731
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"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.
Power and Religion in Baroque Rome
Author: Peter RietbergenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 904741795X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
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
Author: Jennifer MontaguPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300053661
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
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.
Critical Perspectives on Roman Baroque Sculpture
Author: Anthony ColantuonoPublisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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.
Roman Baroque
Author: Anthony BluntPublisher: Pallas Athene
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This study provides an introduction to the glories of Roman baroque architecture and its three greatest exponents, Bernini, Borromini and Cortona.
PAINTING, PATRONAGE AND DEVOTION
Author: GIOVAN BATTISTA. SERAFINELLI FIDANZA (GUENDALINA.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913645144
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Architectural Diplomacy
Author: Gil R. SmithPublisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
In 1676-77 a single event revitalized the traditions of Roman design. That event, the union of the French Royal Academy and the Academy of Saint Luke in Rome, is given new significance in the present study. It has long been thought that the academies' fusion signaled the passing of artistic preeminence from Rome to France. Here, however, the author proposes a more complex interpretation. By demonstrating that Rome continued, in fact, to be the more innovative and influential of the two academies, Gil Smith is able to discern patterns of influence that cross geographical and temporal boundaries, and to portray late-Baroque architecture in international terms. For this Compelling portrait of a transitional period of European architectural trends, Professor Smith draws on the student competitions inaugurated at the Saint Luke Academy to commemorate its ties with the French academies. Far more important than mere "academic" work, these competition drawings reveal the nature of instruction in Rome, the influences of the academy's officers and patrons, and the nature of contemporary projects similar in program to the competitions. The design synthesis pursued in Rome until the end of the seventeenth century, particularly by Carlo Fontana, would become an important source of inspiration for prominent architects of the next century. Among others, the academy's design methodology influenced Fischer von Erlach, Filippo Juvarra, and Giles Oppenord in their search for a progressive Baroque language.