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...
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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