Main entry:

Argan, Giulio Carlo, author.

Title & Author:

The Baroque Age / Giulio Carlo Argan.

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Publication:

Geneva, Switzerland : Skira ; New York : Rizzoli, 1989.
©1989

Description:

137 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Series:

Collection Skira-Flammarion

Notes:
Previously published as pt. 1 of The Europe of the capitals, 1600-1700, 1964.
Includes index.
The Baroque -- Form and image -- The function of images -- Poetics and rhetoric -- The state and the capital city -- The monument -- The monumental -- Imagination and feeling: The emotions -- Persuasion and devotion -- Rhetoric and classicism -- Rhetoric and architecture: The fac̦ade -- Technique.

Summary:

Provides color and black and white illustrations with text presenting the architecture as well as the visual arts of the Baroque Age. Presents the works of the Baroque masters; Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pietro da Cortona, and Caravaggio in Italy, the movement's birthplace and stronghold; and Charles Le Brun, Peter Paul Rubens, Christopher Wren and many others in Northern Europe. Heroic figures, religious subjects and elaborate ornamentation all make up the imagery and themes that dominate the age. --Adapted from publisher description.

ISBN:

0847810615 (Rizzoli)
9780847810611 (Rizzoli)
2605001369 (paperback)
9782605001361 (paperback)

Subject:

Art, Baroque.
Art, Modern 17th century.
Civilization, Modern 17th century.
Art, Modern.
Art baroque.
Art 17e siècle.
Civilisation 17e siècle.
Civilization, Modern

Holdings:

Location: Library main 49073
Call No.: ID:89-B8095
Status: Available