The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste - Rilegato

Minor, Vernon

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ISBN 10: 0521843413 ISBN 13: 9780521843416

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Riassunto

In late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Rome, a rhetorical war raged among intellectuals in the attack and defense of language, literature, and the visual arts. Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste examines the cultural upheaval that accompanied attacks on the baroque predilection for ornament, extended visual metaphors, grandiloquence, and mystical rapture. Rome's Academy of the Arcadians emerged as a potent social and cultural force in the final decade of the seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century it provided a setting for arguments on artistic taste and reforms in literature and religion. This book describes the waning days of the baroque and ends with an analysis of the Parrhasian Grove, the Arcadian garden on the slopes of Rome's Janiculum Hill.

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'Vernon Minor's latest book is a fundamental contribution to the history of early modern western art, the history of thought on aesthetics, and art-historical methodology ... Minor's art-historical approach is among the most evolved to date in the discipline ... a major achievement.' Apollo Magazine

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In late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Rome, a rhetorical war raged among intellectuals in the attack and defense of language, literature, and the visual arts. This book examines the cultural upheaval that accompanied attacks on the baroque predilection for ornament, extended visual metaphors, grandiloquence, and mystical rapture.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521843413
• ISBN 13: 9780521843416
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 206