Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco

Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

ISBN 10: 0300079346 / ISBN 13: 9780300079340

Published by Yale Univ Pr, 1999

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Yale University Press, [Published date: 1999]. Softcover, xvii, 283 pp; 32 cm. Illustrated throughout, some in color. In very good condition. Oversized glossy pictorial soft covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners with a tiny bit of peeling to the corner tips. Light overall scuffing to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, March 10 - June 13, 1999, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, July 25 - October 3, 1999. Edited by Stefanie Walker and Frederick Hammond. Contributors include Maria Giulia Barberini, Thomas Dandelet, Frederick Hammond, Edward J. Olszewski, Eduard A. Safarik, Patricia Waddy, and Stefanie Walker. [From publisher] The Baroque palaces of seventeenth-century Rome were centers for much of the artistic and cultural activities of the city. This book presents some of the magnificent furnishings from these palaces and explains what they reveal of the social life and art patronage of the major families of the Eternal City during this period. [Contents] The Artistic Sources and Development of Roman Baroque Decorative Arts; Inside the Palace: People and Furnishings; Setting the Noble Stage in Baroque Rome: Roman Palaces, Political Contest, and Social Theater, 1600-1700; The Creation of a Roman Festival: Barberini Celebrations for Christina of Sweden; Invention and Reality in Roman Still-Life Painting of the Seventeenth Century: Fioravanti and the Others; The Prince Defended: Arms and Armor in Seventeenth-Century Rome; Decorating the Palace: Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) in the Cancelleria; Catalogue of the Exhibition; Bibliography; Index; Photography Credits.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco
• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300079346
• ISBN 13: 9780300079340
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 16 ounces

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Synopsis

A presentation of furnishings from the baroque palaces of 17th-century Rome. It discusses the relationship of Roman baroque decorative arts and the development of palace architecture; arts and their connection to music and people; and life in the palaces and social and political theatre.

From Library Journal

While there is no dearth of knowledge or appreciation of the monumental aspects of Roman Baroque art, less well attended and savored are the decorative arts of the time. This handsomely illustrated exhibition catalog begins to redress this dereliction. Unlike catalogs that separate scholarly essays, this volume effectively integrates expository considerations with the exquisitely varied objects of the exhibit. The several essays create a stylistic, social, and political context for the appreciation of these decorative objects within the magnificent palaces of Rome's religious grandees. While it may not be possible to reconstruct the total kinetic experience of these works in their urban and domestic settings, the overall affect created by a consideration of ephemeral art like fireworks, festivals, and sugar sculpture, along with a splendid selection of designs, arms, furniture, and devotional objects, brings us inestimably closer to the Baroque experience. Essential for art history and design collections.ARobert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York
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