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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797973103321

Autore

Minor Vernon Hyde

Titolo

Baroque Visual Rhetoric / / Vernon Hyde Minor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2015

ISBN

1-4426-1770-5

1-4426-1769-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

709.03/2

Soggetti

Arts, Baroque - Italy

Arts, Italian - 17th century

Arts, Italian - 18th century

Aesthetics, Modern - 17th century

Aesthetics, Modern - 18th century

Art criticism - History

Arts baroques - Italie

Arts italiens - 17e siècle

Arts italiens - 18e siècle

Esthétique - 17e siècle

Esthétique - 18e siècle

Critique d'art - Histoire

Libros electronicos.

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction; 2. Critical Perspectives; 3. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini and Inexpressibility; 4. Death and Dying in St Peter's Basilica: Part 1; 5. Death and Dying in St Peter's Basilica: Part 2; 6. Eighteenth-Century Baroque: The Style That Did Not (Quite) Die; 7. Narrative and Symbol in the Apostles Series, San Giovanni in Laterano; 8. Fear and Trembling in Francesco Borromini's Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza; 9. Baroque Conceits: Domenichino and Baciccio; 10. Bernini and the Metaphor of the Fiery



Angel; 11. Blaise Pascal, Jansenists, Jesuits, and the Lettres Provinciales; 12. The Corsini Chapel: Its Sense of Place and Time; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes the Baroque's combination of style and message and the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.