Style And Civilization: Baroque
Language: English
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 1991
- Softcover
- Used

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The author introduces the reader to the essential qualities of Baroque art, telling how mannerism was finally supplanted by Caravaggio's naturalism and relating the new acceptance of sensual experience to a new curiosity about human psychology and the inner life. He discusses attitudes to antiquity and the profound effect of the Copernican revolution through which the artist's vision of light and time dramatically altered, to create a sense of infinite space coupled with an intensifying awareness of mutability and change. Throughout, he emphasizes this century's balance between the secular and the religious, an equilibrium which allowed spiritual or mystical qualities to permeate even the most apparently mundane of genre paintings, which is the great distinguishing feature of Baroque art. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Style And Civilization: Baroque
- Author
- John Rupert Martin
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0140153632
- ISBN 13
- 9780140153637
- Item weight
- 640 grams
- Dimensions
- 153.0 x 234.0
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