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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970615203321

Autore

Carl Klaus H

Titolo

Baroque art / / Klaus H. Carl & Victoria Charles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[New York], : Parkstone International, [2012]

ISBN

9781283952187

1283952181

9781780427966

1780427964

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Collection art of century

Altri autori (Persone)

CharlesVictoria

Disciplina

709.033

Soggetti

Art, Baroque

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Baroque in Italy; Architecture and Sculpture; Gian Lorenzo Bernini; The Fountains of Rome; Turin and Venice; Painting; The Carraccis and their Pupils; Caravaggio; Florence and Venice; Baroque in France; Architecture; Painting; Sculpture; Baroque in the Netherlands; Architecture; Painting; Frans Hals and his Time; Frans Hals' Pupils; Rembrandt and his Time; Rembrandt's Pupils; The Genre, Landscape, Animal and Still-Life Painting; Genre Painting; Gerrit Dou; Gerrit Dou's Pupils; Johannes Vermeer; Landscape Painting; Van de Velde; Jan van Goyen

Salomon and Jacob van RuisdaelOther Landscape Painters; The Specialists under the Painters; Art in the Southern Netherlands; Peter Paul Rubens and His School; Anthony van Dyck; The Flemish Genre and Landscape Painters: The Bruegels; David Teniers the Younger and Adriaen Brouwer; Baroque in Spain; Painting; El Greco; Diego Velázquez; Bartolomé Esteban Murillo; Francisco Goya; Baroque in Germany,England and Austria; Germany; The Builders and Buildings; Painting; Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki; England; The Builders and Buildings; Painting; William Hogarth; Austria and the Czechs

The Master Builders and SculptorsThe Charles Bridge; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth



century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists' response to the Catholic Church's demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark in Europe: the continent is dotted with magnificent Baroque churches and palaces, commissioned by patrons at the height of their power. The works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini of the Southern School and Peter Paul Rubens of the Northern School alone show the importance of this artistic period. Rich in images encompassing the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, this work offers a complete insight into this passionate period in the history of art.