Автор: Flavio Conti
Название: How to Recognize Baroque Art
Издательство: Penguin Books
Год: 1979
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 68
Язык: English
Размер: 12.4 MB

Baroque art began in the early seventeenth century as the official artistic expression of Catholicism; a role to which its massive scale and swirling forms were perfectly suited. Though it later spread from papal Rome and underwent many national variations it always retained its grandeur. Its extravagance is analyzed in this book in terms of a well-reasoned system that covers the three important Baroque modes architecture, painting, and sculpture.