In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though originally ...
Continue Reading βInigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of ...
Continue Reading βDraws on contemporary biographies and a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival material to illuminate the position and practice of the Baroque sculptor, to ...
Continue Reading βThe rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, ...
Continue Reading βThe first volume of Rome in the Age of Bernini (1585-1644) was published in 1982. In the present volume I continue the story ...
Continue Reading βThe idea of writing this book first came to me when I was collaborating with the late professor Erik SjΓΆqvist on a revision ...
Continue Reading βIn this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the “propagandistic” art and architecture of the Jesuit ...
Continue Reading βArt in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French ...
Continue Reading βFrom its beginnings in the seventeenth century, the Baroque embraced the whole of Catholic Europe and infiltrated Protestant England, Orthodox Russia and even ...
Continue Reading βA new interest in the study of early modern ritual, ceremony, formations of personal and collective identities, social roles, and the production of ...
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