Baroque & Rococo: Art & Culture; Author: Minor, Vernon Hyde; Hardback; Book

Author: Minor, Vernon Hyde
Hardback; Book; Illustrations (Some Colour)
400 pages
Published: October 1999
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
ISBN: 0810941082
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From 1600 to 1760, Baroque and Rococo artists brought a newfound energy, emotion, and elegance to European painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts. This profusely illustratedsurvey is the first to incorporate modern scholarship and examine the Baroque and Rococo eras contextually.Vernon Hyde Minor explores the styles, institutions, cities, and genres that shaped this period's great artistic outpouring -- and illuminates the achievements of Bernini, Caravaggio, Fragonard, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velazquez, Vermeer, Watteau, and other notable artists. With unusually thorough coverage of women artists, town planning, and domestic interiors and gardening, Baroque Rococo brilliantly captures the swirling cultural currents of the time from Counter Reformation Rome to LouiThis text explores the styles, institutions, cities and genres that shaped the Baroque and Rococo periods' great artistic outpourings. It aims to capture the cultural currents of the time from Counter Reformation to Lois XIV's Versailles to bourgeois Amsterdam.