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Key monuments of the Baroque / Laurie Schneider Adams.
Fine Arts Library N6415.B3 A33 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, Laurie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Baroque.
- Art, Modern--17th-18th centuries.
- Local Subjects:
- Art, Modern--17th-18th centuries.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 196 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- The most important works of art and the artists who created them of the Baroque period and style from about 1600 to 1750 are described and analyzed clearly and thoroughly from various points of view. The book covers Mannerist precursors, Baroque painting, sculpture and architecture in Rome, Velazquez in Spain, French Baroque, Flemish Baroque, Dutch painting in the seventeenth century, and Late Baroque and Rococo. Artists included are Cellini, Veronese, Vignola, Alberti, Bramante, Bernini, Borromini, Caravaggio, Gentileschi, Caracci, Velazquez, Poussin, Le Vau, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Ruisdael, Claesz, Vermeer, Wren, Watteau, Neumann, and Chardin. Includes a glossary, a bibliography of works cited, and suggested readings.
- Notes:
- "Icon editions."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-179) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813334276
- OCLC:
- 42406087
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