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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0205832261
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0205832262
• Author: Robert Neuman

Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture is the first in-depth history of one of the great periods of Western art, spanning the years 1585 to 1785. The text treats the major media–painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, and architecture–as well as gardens, furniture, tapestries, costume, jewelry, and ceramics, all in terms of their original function and patronage and with emphasis on the social, political and cultural context. Organized by country and medium, the book contains biographies of the leading creative figures of the time, from Caravaggio and Rembrandt to Watteau and Hogarth. Significantly, Professor Neuman offers the fullest account to date of women artists and the representation of women and families in art. Additionally, drawing from recent scholarship, the text explores such fields as Spanish polychrome sculpture and Viceregal American painting.

Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture reviews traditional and recent strategies for interpreting artworks. It also traces the dissemination of visual ideas through prints and drawings–the forerunners of today’s art reproductions and digital media. In special sections the text raises questions regarding the nature of perception and how artists transfer optical data to the canvas. Artists’ techniques, from painting and printmaking to sculpting in marble and casting in bronze, are explained. Analysis of the institutions of art, such as the royal academies, apprenticeship systems, and artists’ exhibition rooms, complements an examination of collecting at all levels of society. The book is exceptional in considering issues related to authenticity and the relative value of artworks based on attribution.

table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Birth of Baroque Painting in Italy

Chapter 2: The Sacred and Secular in Painting in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Chapter 3: Italian Baroque Sculpture and the Bel Composto

Chapter 4: Baroque Architecture in Italy

Chapter 5: The Golden Age of Spain and Viceregal America

Chapter 6: The Human Figure in Dutch Seventeenth Century Painting

Chapter 7: Picturing Holland in the Dutch Republic’s Golden Age

Chapter 8: Flemish Baroque Painting in the Age of Rubens

Chapter 9: French Painting and Prints of the Seventeenth Century

Chapter 10: Baroque Architecture in France and England

Chapter 11: French Painting from the Regency to the Reign of Louis XV

Chapter 12: The Public and the Private in French Painting of the Enlightenment

Chapter 13: French Sculpture and Architecture in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 14: The Georgian Panorama in British Painting and Prints

Chapter 15: Architecture and Gardens in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Chapter 16: Eighteenth-Century Austria, Germany, and Italy

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