Death of the baroque and the rhetoric of good taste, the
Auteur :
Minor, Vernon
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521843416
Date de publication :
16 janv. 2005
Dimensions :
26,1 x 18,5 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
697 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.