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BAROQUE 1600-1770 EUROPEAN ART FROM CARVAGGIO TO TIEPOLO

Francesca Castria Marchetti

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It was an age of continuous warfare and tension, of upheavals and tragic events that culminated in 1789 with the French Revolution. Traditional ideas were being questioned and overturned, and a sense of crisis was spreading. Men and women of surging ambition battled for position on a chessboard that now extended from Russia to the United States, while economic and social disparities were growing throughout Europe.

Perhaps the most surprising development of this turbulent time was Baroque art, the most fabulous and opulent style in the long history of Europe's figurative arts.

Baroque art took hold during the same years that the world's expanding economies were laying the basis for the age of capitalism and crowned heads built residences of incomparable grandiosity. It was an age of fascinating richness in all the fields of the arts. There was an intense circulation of ideas, and while new national schools took form — heralding Golden Ages in may countries, such as that of Rembrandt in the Netherlands or Vel

Pages: 400

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 2005

ISBN 13: 9780760773338

BAROQUE 1600-1770 EUROPEAN ART FROM CARVAGGIO TO TIEPOLO

Francesca Castria Marchetti

0/5 ( ratings)

It was an age of continuous warfare and tension, of upheavals and tragic events that culminated in 1789 with the French Revolution. Traditional ideas were being questioned and overturned, and a sense of crisis was spreading. Men and women of surging ambition battled for position on a chessboard that now extended from Russia to the United States, while economic and social disparities were growing throughout Europe.

Perhaps the most surprising development of this turbulent time was Baroque art, the most fabulous and opulent style in the long history of Europe's figurative arts.

Baroque art took hold during the same years that the world's expanding economies were laying the basis for the age of capitalism and crowned heads built residences of incomparable grandiosity. It was an age of fascinating richness in all the fields of the arts. There was an intense circulation of ideas, and while new national schools took form — heralding Golden Ages in may countries, such as that of Rembrandt in the Netherlands or Vel

Pages: 400

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 2005

ISBN 13: 9780760773338

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