Baroque and Rococo Pictorial Imagery


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Excellent royalty-free reprint of 200 plates from rare 18th-century edition of 1593 classic that codified symbolism of baroque and rococo periods. New introduction, translations of captions and index, plate descriptions.



















Treasury of Baroque and Rococo Designs


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Drawn from a historic treasury of designs from France, Germany, and other European countries, this magnificent book and CD-ROM set overflows with 213 arresting black-and-white illustrations: architectural elements, distinctive woodcarvings and metalwork, jewelry, sculpture, and other decorative arts. The images are a delight to browse and applicable to many design projects.




Baroque and Rococo


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Baroque and Rococo encompasses the German Empire as well as the Netherlands, England, France, Espin, and Italy. This highly expressive, almost effusive art epoch is explained to the reader by means of practical examples of painting, sculpture, and formal gardens that illustrate the new choice of motives that developed in the painting of the time.




Paolo de Matteis


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This volume represents a long overdue reassessment of the Neapolitan painter Paolo de Matteis, an artist largely overlooked in English language scholarly publications, but one who merits our attention for the quality of his work and the originality of its iconography, as well as for his remarkable ability to respond creatively to his patrons? aesthetic ideals and agendas. Following a meticulous examination of the ways in which posterity?s impression of de Matteis has been conditioned by a biased biographical and literary tradition, Livio Pestilli devotes rich, detailed analyses to the artist?s most significant paintings and drawings. More than just a novel approach to de Matteis and the Neapolitan Baroque, however, the book makes a significant contribution to the study and understanding of early eighteenth-century European art and cultural history in general, not only in Naples but in other major European centers, including Paris, Vienna, Genoa, and Rome.