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How to Recognize Baroque Art

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
1979
ISBN
0140052321, 9780140052329
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12975012 bytes)
Pages
64\68
Time added
2015-07-07 22:22:13

Description

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

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