The Death of the baroque and the rhetoric of good taste
By: Vernon Hyde Minor.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521843416
Subjects: Arts, Baroque -- Italy.; Arts, Italian -- 16th century.; Aesthetics, Modern -- 17th century.; Art criticism -- Italy -- History -- 17th century.
Description: "The 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cattivo gusto and some aspects of baroque rhetoric; title: Buon gusto; title: Arcadia, pastoralism, and good taste; title: What is arcadian architecture?; title: Short history of the academy of the arcadians; title: Parrhasian grove.