Baroque / John Rupert Martin.
By: Martin, John Rupert [author]
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Material type:
BookSeries: Style and civilization (Penguin (Firm)): Publisher: London : Penguin, 1991Copyright date: ©1977Description: 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0140153632; 9780140153637.Subject(s): Art, Baroque| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 709.032 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00230425 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The question of style -- Naturalism -- The passions of the soul -- The Transcendental View of Reality and the Allegorical Tradition -- Space -- Time -- Light -- Attitudes to Antiquity.