Careri Giovanni ( with the Photographs by Ferrante Ferranti )

Baroques Careri Giovanni Editore: Princeton University Press 2003(2003) Nuovoo?Rilegato Quantità: 1 Prezzo: EUR 80,00.- Original published as Baroques Editio - éditions Citadelles & Mazenod Paris 2002 Descrizione libro: Princeton University Press 2003, 2003. Mint in publishers cloth in like dustjacket (still shrink wrapped). 248pp. Illustrated. From Rome to St. Petersburg, Portugal to Brazil, the Baroque was the first art movement to span not only countries but distant continents. This stunningly illustrated book takes us on a breathtaking pilgrimage through its endless variations over some two hundred years, beginning in the early seventeenth century. Readers are treated to such wonders as Bernini's intensely powerful sculptures and his immense colonnade on St. Peter's Square, imposing palace facades, painted ceilings, crucifixes, angels, demons, piazzas, villas, gardens, and more. Though once viewed in Europe as decadent compared to Renaissance art, the Baroque is seen today as the ultimate manifestation of a style that expanded the bounds of reality and engendered a "culture of visualization," prefiguring the modern age.Combining Ferrante Ferranti's magnificent color photographs, many never before published, with Giovanni Careri's absorbing prose account of the Baroque in chapters arranged by theme, Baroques marks the first time the topic has been treated so comprehensively, going well beyond Italy as far as colonial Latin America. ISBN 0691116903. Codice libro della libreria 008396 Language : english text Size: 260 x340 mm.