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Baroque visual rhetoric / Vernon Hyde Minor.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian studiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442617698
  • 1442617691
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Baroque visual rhetoric.DDC classification:
  • 709.03/2 23
LOC classification:
  • NX552.A1
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Critical Perspectives; 3. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini and Inexpressibility; 4. Death and Dying in St Peter's Basilica: Part 1; 5. Death and Dying in St Peter's Basilica: Part 2; 6. Eighteenth-Century Baroque: The Style That Did Not (Quite) Die; 7. Narrative and Symbol in the Apostles Series, San Giovanni in Laterano; 8. Fear and Trembling in Francesco Borromini's Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza; 9. Baroque Conceits: Domenichino and Baciccio; 10. Bernini and the Metaphor of the Fiery Angel; 11. Blaise Pascal, Jansenists, Jesuits, and the Lettres Provinciales; 12. The Corsini Chapel: Its Sense of Place and Time; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes the Baroque's combination of style and message and the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.
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Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes the Baroque's combination of style and message and the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.

1. Introduction; 2. Critical Perspectives; 3. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini and Inexpressibility; 4. Death and Dying in St Peter's Basilica: Part 1; 5. Death and Dying in St Peter's Basilica: Part 2; 6. Eighteenth-Century Baroque: The Style That Did Not (Quite) Die; 7. Narrative and Symbol in the Apostles Series, San Giovanni in Laterano; 8. Fear and Trembling in Francesco Borromini's Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza; 9. Baroque Conceits: Domenichino and Baciccio; 10. Bernini and the Metaphor of the Fiery Angel; 11. Blaise Pascal, Jansenists, Jesuits, and the Lettres Provinciales; 12. The Corsini Chapel: Its Sense of Place and Time; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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