Author: Gail Feigenbaum
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2014-08-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1606062980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the parts function to convey multiple artistic, social, and political messages, all within a splendid environment that provided a model for aristocratic residences throughout Europe. Many of the objects exhibited in museums today once graced the interior of a Roman Baroque palazzo or a setting inspired by one. In fact, the very convention of a paintings gallery— the mainstay of museums—traces its ancestry to prototypes in the palaces of Rome. Inside Roman palaces, the display of art was calibrated to an increasingly accentuated dynamism of social and official life, activated by the moving bodies and the attention of residents and visitors. Display unfolded in space in a purposeful narrative that reflected rank, honor, privilege, and intimacy. With a contextual approach that encompasses the full range of media, from textiles to stucco, this study traces the influential emerging concept of a unified interior. It argues that art history—even the emergence of the modern category of fine art—was worked out as much in the rooms of palaces as in the printed pages of Vasari and other early writers on art.
Author: Alois Riegl
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1606060414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Delivered at the turn of the twentieth century, Riegl's groundbreaking lectures called for the Baroque period to be judged by its own rules and not merely as a period of decline.
Author: Fabio Benzi
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780847820566
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Built by the greatest architects of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, decorated by the most important artists of Italy, Roman palaces are grand beyond description. This magnificent book showcases 24 such dwellings--from the Palazzo Farnese, designed by Michelangelo, to the Palazzo Quirinale, headquarters of the President of the Republic--all photographed by the renowned Roberto Schezen. 450 color illustrations.
Author: Peter Gillgren
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1351554689
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new interest in the study of early modern ritual, ceremony, formations of personal and collective identities, social roles, and the production of meaning inside and outside the arts have made it possible to talk today about a performative turn in the humanities. In Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome, scholars from different fields of research explore performative aspects of Baroque culture. With examples from the politics of diplomacy and everyday life, from theatre, music and ritual as well as from architecture, painting and sculpture the contributors demonstrate how broadly the concept of performativity has been adopted within different disciplines.
Author: Lilian H. Zirpolo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-03-13
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 1538111292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on famous artists, sculptors, architects, patrons, and other historical figures, and events.
Author: James G. Harper
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788899765316
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the first sustained scholastic treatment of the Life of Christ tapestries, which were commissioned by Pope Urban VIII's nephew, Cardinal Francesco Barberini. Covering over 2800 square feet, the series is one of the grandest monuments of seventeenth century Rome. A close reading of each panel sets the tapestries into a number of overlapping contexts; they indicate the stylistic advances of the high Baroque period, as well the political and social agendas of their patrons. The introductory chapter lays out the context of Urban VIII's Rome. Subsequent chapters reconstruct the history of Cardinal Barberini's private tapestry commissions, and the activity of Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, the supervising designer of the Life of Christ. The contemporary usage and display of the tapestries is discussed, as is the transfer of the series to the United States and its subsequent display in New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The final chapter is dedicated to technical aspects of the panels, recounting their recent conservation. 00Exhibition: Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, USA (21.03.- 25.06.2017) / Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Oregon, USA (23.09.2017 - 21.01.2018).
Author: Stefanie Tcharos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-03
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0521116651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tcharos illustrates opera's engagement in a larger musical sphere of Arcadian Rome, where opera inspired debate and fuelled ideological reform.