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Baroque

by: John Rupert Martin (author)

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...more than 200 conveniently arranged and well-annotated illustrations...There does not, I believe, exist a better introduction to the Baroque.--Library Journal

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Format: Textbook

ISBN: 9780064300773 (0064300773)

ASIN: 9780064300773

Publish date: 01-04-1977

Publisher: Westview Press

Edition language: English

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This book was required reading for a lovely college course on the art and architecture of the Gothic and the Baroque. Cover photograph: Detail of the statue The Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (wikipedia) ......................................................................... Contents: Introducti...

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Mannerism:Francesco Salviati (1510-1563), La deposizione (1550)Baroque:Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Descent From the Cross (c. 1612-14)That said, this particular volume of the Penguin Style and Civilization series is dry and uninspired and, apparently, revisionist. The attempt to subsume all of th...

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