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The Baroque period of architecture began in the late 16th century in Rome, Italy. It took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state. It was characterized by new explorations of naturalism, form, light and ...
Jul 10, 2018 · In the minds of many, the word “baroque” calls to mind one thing: ornamentation, and particularly, to modern viewers, what seems like a generous employment of ornamentation in the Baroque era’s art, architecture, and music. Exactly why seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe embraced decoration so eagerly has been difficult to explain.
This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian art from 1600-1750, highlighting the key debates with which art historians continue to grapple. Explores themes including: style or the visuality of art; artistic practices and production; artistic communication as projected and experienced; and artists’ interactions with the ancient world and with the new sciences Examines ...
Aug 11, 2008 · Architectural Theory, Volume 2: An Anthology from 1871 to 2005. Harry Francis Mallgrave, Christina Contandriopoulos. Wiley, Aug 11, 2008 - Architecture - 656 pages. This second volume of the landmark Architectural Theory anthology surveys the development of architectural theory from the Franco-Prussian war of 1871 until the end of the twentieth ...
Baroque art and architecture - Ornate, Grandeur, Drama: The arts present an unusual diversity in the Baroque period, chiefly because currents of naturalism and classicism coexisted and intermingled with the typical Baroque style. Indeed, Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio, the two Italian painters who decisively broke with Mannerism in the 1590s and thus helped usher in the Baroque style ...
Due to the nature of critique, the philosophy of architecture is an outgrowth of the philosophy of art, which began to be expressed in books on architecture and history of architecture during the latter half of the twentieth century. [2] Prior to that, largely because of its reliance on technology and engineering, architecture was seen as ...
The entire two volume anthology follows the full range of architectural literature from classical times to present transformations. An ambitious anthology bringing together over 300 classic and contemporary essays that survey the key developments and trends in architecture. Spans the period from 1871 to 2005, from John Ruskin and the arts and ...
