Key Monuments of the Baroque
Publisher: Westview Pr (Trd)
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780813334271
Subjects: Baroque Art; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Art; History - General; History - Baroque; Italy; Art, Baroque
First sentence: The art-historical style referred to as Baroque generally designates the time period 1600 to 1750.
Description: "This book describes and analyzes in depth a number of the most important works of art (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the artists who created them in the Baroque style from about 1600 to 1750, with 109 illustrations.".

"The book covers the Mannerist precursors of Baroque; Baroque painting, sculpture, and architecture in Rome; Velazquez in Spain; French Baroque; Flemish Baroque; Dutch painting in the seventeenth century; and late Baroque and Rococo. The book includes boxed sections on important subjects related to the key monuments, a glossary, a bibliography of works cited, suggested readings, and an index.

Among the artists included are Cellini, Veronese, Vignola, Bramante, Bernini, Borromini, Caravaggio, Gentileschi, Carracci, Velazquez, Poussin, Le Vau, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Ruisdael, Claesz, Vermeer, and Wren."--BOOK JACKET.