Baroque and Rococo Art

Cloth, 264 pages, illustrations (part colour), plans, portraits; 23 cm. Panorama of World Art Series. First published under title: Barock und Rokoko. Translated from the German. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar cover. *** "The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries compromised perhaps the most dynamic period in the long history of European art. Between Renaissance classicism and nineteenth-century neo-classicism, the noble grandiosity of the Barquoe and the exuberant playfulness of the Rococo reflect the spirit of their respective ages. Painters, sculptors, and -in particular-architects enjoyed to the full a new-found freedom of expression; and even though this may have resulted on occasion in extravagant decoration, the total effect was of an inspired enthusiasm unequaled until the twentieth century. Dr. Liselotte Andersen, of the Zenralinstitfur Kunstgeschichte, Munich, has made a profound study of Baroque and Rococo art and has distilled into this handsome book the fruits of her expert knowledge. She explores to full scope of art between 1600 and 1800: the beginnings of the Baroque in Italy; the gradual spread of the style, particularly to France, where it found its grandest expression in the Versaillies of Louis XVI; the influence of Versaillies throughout the Continent, revealing the international character if the art of the epoch; the Barvarian Baroque; the interconnections of Spanish and Dutch painting and of English and Dutch architecture; the development of the Rococo in France and its flowering in South Germany and Austria. Bernini, Caravaggio, Poussin, Velazquez, Wren, Rubens, Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Wateau, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Goya-the works of all of these outstanding artists, and many more, are reproduced here in abundant illustrations of rare quality. Their freshness and vitality express eloquently the mood of the times in which they were produced. BAROQUE AND ROCOCO ART cannot fail to excite the amateur and inform the expert on this unique period of European art history" - Publisher. Size: 8vo.…