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The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)Baroque Aesthetics

Book by William Egginton; Stanford University Press, 2010

Subjects:

Baroque Literature--History And Criticism, Spanish American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Spanish Literature--Classical Period, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Truth (Aesthetics)

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...incorporates the basic tenets of baroque architecture: rather than the...or doors. In the chiaroscuro of baroque painting Deleuze sees what he calls...need not go far into the world of baroque sculpture to find excessively eponymous illustrations...
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Baroque Art: A Topical Dictionary

Book by Irene Earls; Greenwood Press, 1996

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Art, Baroque--Dictionaries

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...was inclined sideways in the opposite direction. Baroque sculpture and painting were deeply influenced by the work of...and shadow and induced the kind of emotion favored by Baroque artists. CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL. Originally named...
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Baroque

Book by John Rupert Martin; Harper & Row, 1977

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Art, Baroque--History

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...installed on the staircase of the Biblioteca Vallicelliana. Lit: J. Pope-Hennessy: Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture , 2nd ed. 1970. 448; R. Wittkower: Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750 , rev. ed. 1973. 270-71...
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Milton and the Baroque

Book by Murray Roston; Macmillan Press, 1986

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Art, Baroque, Baroque Literature--History And Criticism, Fiction, Milton, John--1608-1674--Paradise Lost, Milton, John--1608-1674--Style

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...and the authenticity of the baroque as an independent art form is...understand. At their worst, baroque painting and sculpture are more stridently offensive...untroublesome way, while in baroque kitsch the over- dramatised...
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Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture

Book by John Varriano; Oxford University Press, 1986

Subjects:

Architecture, Baroque--Italy, Architecture, Rococo--Italy, Architecture--Italy

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...set the stage for an exciting piece of narrative sculpture. The unabashedly Baroque pediment intensifies the emotionalism of St...of the individual parts. 13 In this system, sculpture that tells a story is the dominant element to...

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Journal Articles on: baroque sculpture

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The Society of Jesus and the Culture of the Late Baroque in Bohemia 1730-1773(*)

Journal article by Paul Shore; East European Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2000

Subjects:

Bohemia--History, Civilization, Baroque--Research, Culture--Research, Jesuits--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...in a culture emerging from a Baroque sensibility.(4) THE BAROQUE IN BOHEMIA Art historians are...extraordinary effusion of painting, sculpture, and especially architecture that characterized the Baroque in Bohemia. The final flowering...
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Flannery O'Connor as Baroque Artist: Theological and Literary Strategies

Journal article by Mark Bosco; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 62, 2009

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Art, Baroque--Influence, Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Works, Baroque art--Influence, Catholicism--Influence, O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation, O'Connor, Flannery--Works, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works

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...art, akin to the Catholic Baroque aesthetics of the seventeenth...Reformation, the Catholic Baroque offered a theological vision...revelatory moments in painting and sculpture. These artists looked back...the contours of a Catholic Baroque aesthetic. The word "baroque...
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The Long Day: Sculpture by Claudette Schreuders

Journal article; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 25, 2004

Subjects:

Art dealers--2004 AD, Art museums--2004 AD, Sculpture--2004 AD, Sculpture--Exhibitions, Sculpture--United States

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...an American museum of sculpture and prints by South African...personal experience." Her sculpture is a poignant blend of...by African and European baroque sculpture. The Long Day features eleven new sculptures. These autobiographical...
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The Study of Greek Sculpture in the Twenty-first Century1

Journal article by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 149, 2005

Subjects:

Art criticism, Art history, Greece, Sculpture, Visual artists

Collections: History, Entire Library

...important than architectural sculptures were the freestanding bronzes...1970), ensured for the sculptures a date within the fifth century...motivating forces behind the sculptures and on the physical evidence...for it in the past. The sculpture has attracted renewed interest...general mid-Hellenistic ("Baroque") style. The group in...
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On the Feeling Invested in Objects: Gonzalez's Sculptures and Stewart's Narratives of Longing

Journal article by Martin Bidney; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 41, 2008

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Gonzalez, Ronald--Works, Narratives--Criticism and interpretation, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Sculptors--Works, Sculpture--Canada, Sculpture--Criticism and interpretation, Stewart, Susan (American poet)--Works

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...shops, and tour views. The sculptures of Gonzalez combine symptom...attempts to entrap, in sculpture, the elusive Imaginary. Gonzalezs toylike sculptures are implicitly psychosocial...robe-folds painted on Baroque church ceilings. Lively...Photographed presentations of sculpture amplify hints of a gigantism...as dolls, automatons and sculptures, emerge from the repertory...

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Magazine Articles on: baroque sculpture

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An Extraordinary Baroque Fusion of Architecture, Sculpture and Abstracted Nature, the Fontana Di Trevi Still Brings Aquatic Splendour and Drama to the Middle of Rome

Magazine article by Catherine Slessor; The Architectural Review, Vol. 213, January 2003

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Architecture--Design and construction, Fountains--Design and construction, Rome, Italy

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An extraordinary Baroque fusion of architecture, sculpture and abstracted nature, the Fontana...piazza dominated by an extravagant Baroque stage set of creamy travertine...Ruskin, no great fancier of the Baroque, was moved to declaim I got...
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Performance Art: As a New Exhibition on the Baroque Opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Joanna Norman Looks at This Age of Magnificence

Magazine article by Joanna Norman; History Today, Vol. 59, April 2009

Subjects:

Art, Baroque--Exhibitions, Baroque art--Exhibitions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...As a New Exhibition on the Baroque Opens at the Victoria and...Magnificence. by Joanna Norman The Baroque style was a global phenomenon...disciplines ranging from painting, sculpture and architecture to theatre and music the Baroque reigned as the dominant style...
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Portraits after Life: The Baroque Legacy of Poland's Nobles

Magazine article by Bozena Grabowska; History Today, Vol. 43, October 1993

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Art, Baroque--17th century, Art, Polish--17th century, Burial--17th century, Nobility--Poland, Poland--Art

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...the Enlightenment. The high point of Baroque development occurred in the seventeenth...classical and early Christian Roman funerary sculpture, such as sarcophagi, surrounding the...The change of technique - from relief sculpture to a painting on metal plate - gave additional...
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"Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution": METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

Magazine article by Robert Pincus-Witten; Artforum International, Vol. 47, Summer 2009

Subjects:

Sculpture--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture--Exhibitions, Sculpture--United States

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"Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution...government, its classicizing Baroque ostentation the finest flower...end it is the transfigurative Baroque conceits used to disguise physical...Here the panoply of learned Baroque classicism, its resident Apollos...
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No More Scale: The Experience of Size in Contemporary Sculpture

Magazine article by James Meyer; Artforum International, Vol. 42, Summer 2004

Subjects:

Eliasson, Olafur--Works, Installations (Art)--Exhibitions, Sculptors--Criticism and interpretation, Sculptors--Works, Sculpture--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture--United States, The Weather Project (Artwork)

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...1969, and other early process sculptures established a concordance of scale...into the body that perceives. In a sculpture like Circuit, 1972, the viewer...the body as the subject of the sculpture, and the body of the viewer as the sculptures object; this concordance is rooted...would claim, is the awareness of sculpture as a medium keyed to the viewers...his own body. Rays most memorable sculptures retain this somatic intensity and...

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Newspaper Articles on: baroque sculpture

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The First Age of Bling; A New Survey of the Baroque Is Full of the Ludicrous and Extravagant but Where Is Emotion, Magnificence and Spirit?

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 3, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of architecture and sculpture. Among these, could...these, is the true Baroque, where was it born...characteristics of the Baroque in painting and sculpture are sweeping movement...its purposes. But baroque artists were not...
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BAROQUE STARS; Compton Verney Welcomes Home Paintingsfrom Naples: Art

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), May 14, 2010

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Art exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

BAROQUE STARS; Compton Verney Welcomes...paintings, a mirror and a sculpture were selected for an acclaimed...Ritorno al Barocco (Back To The Baroque) in Naples. They have now...the exhibition celebrates Baroque art and culture in Naples...
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If It's Baroque, Don't Fix It on This Artsy Outing

Newspaper article by Barbara Vitello; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 12, 2001

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Chicago, Illinois

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...historians have referred to the baroque era as "the age of theater...success. "The Theatrical Baroque," a new exhibition at the...centuries in the form of painting, sculpture and works on paper. Museum...March 1. "The Theatrical Baroque" continues through April 22...
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Baroque Sights, Sounds at the Gallery

Newspaper article by Kevin Chaffee; The Washington Times, May 19, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Baroque sights, sounds at the gallery...Gallery of Art is going for baroque in a big way over the next...tone for "Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600...paintings, drawings and sculpture on display. Later, it seemed...
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Dresden's New Magnificence; Baroque Glory Returns to Florence on the Elbe

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 26, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...sided Zwinger, a huge baroque structure with a large...courtyard of fountains and sculptures was the scene of many...world to compete on baroque instruments. The Erzgebirge...larger-than-life sculpture (above) to gain the...power of the German baroque. Photograph by Corinna...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: baroque sculpture

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Baroque , in Art and Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...technical brilliance, the baroque artist achieved a remarkable...harmony wherein painting, sculpture, and architecture were...and B. Lohse, ed., Baroque Sculpture (tr. 1965); M. Kitson, The Age of the Baroque (1966); G. Bazin...
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Sculpture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Roman art ). Western Sculpture from the Middle Ages to...religious architectural sculptures of the Romanesque and Gothic...architect Bernini . The sculpture of Puget in France was more consistently Baroque in style and theme than...An element of much modern sculpture is movement. In kinetic works the sculptures are so balanced as to move...
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Tacca, Pietro

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Taccas works (e.g., the equestrian portrait of PhilipIV of Spain, Madrid) form a link between mannerist and baroque sculpture. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of...
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Italian Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...spirit is seen in the powerful sculpture of Nicola Pisano. He made...superb terra-cotta relief sculptures. The Tuscan painters, including...monumental projects in painting, sculpture, or architecture that materialized...vigorously conceived. The Baroque Period In the early 17th...have a profound influence on baroque ceiling paintings. The stormy...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...most outstanding collections include European paintings and sculpture of the Renaissance, baroque, and modern periods; pastels; watercolors; miniatures...hundreds of examples of Greek pottery and its Greek and Roman sculptures are among the finest such collections in the world. The...

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