The Death of the baroque and the rhetoric of good taste
By: Vernon Hyde Minor.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521843416
Subjects: Art criticism -- Italy -- History -- 17th century.; Arts, Baroque -- Italy.; Arts, Italian -- 16th century.; Aesthetics, Modern -- 17th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Cattivo gusto and some aspects of baroque rhetoric; value: Buon gusto; value: Arcadia, pastoralism, and good taste; value: What is arcadian architecture?; value: Short history of the academy of the arcadians; value: Parrhasian grove.