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Author Minor, Vernon Hyde, author

Title Baroque visual rhetoric / Vernon Hyde Minor
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages)
Series Toronto Italian Studies
Toronto Italian studies.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Arts, Baroque -- Italy
Arts, Italian -- 17th century
Arts, Italian -- 18th century
Aesthetics, Modern -- 17th century.
Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century.
Art criticism -- History
Aesthetics, Modern.
ART -- History -- General.
ART -- History -- Baroque & Rococo.
Aesthetics, Modern
Art criticism
Arts, Baroque
Arts, Italian
Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442617698
1442617691