Bibliography for the study of Baroque art and architecture (original) (raw)
Renaissance Quarterly 75.2, 2022
I have several impressions from the ambitious content and large scope of this book. One is that in one hundred years the Baroque has become an asset for European, Latin American, and Asian traditions beyond Iberian literature and art. The second is that this handbook of the Baroque à la française complements many impressive studies, touching on topics such as Baroque and German studies, Baroque and Romantic liter- ature, Baroque and neo-rhetoric, neo-Baroque, and poetry, theater, and prose from Iberia and Latin America. Third is that any aspect of inquiry can be associated with the epistemologically enlarged concept of the Baroque. Fourth, the bibliography accu- mulated in the volume is impressive and overwhelming. For all of these reasons, the handbook is a necessary reference in the library of any scholar in fields related to the seventeenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
Baroque architecture and the system of the arts
2008
This paper discusses the aims and one of the issues of a larger study of the 20 th century historiography of baroque architecture. The larger project will study the different investments in the baroque as a corpus of exemplary buildings, and as a problem in the development of architecture. With this aim, the changing concept of architecture between the 17 th and 20 th centuries becomes significant, and the present paper offers a sketch of the context of architecture within the system of the arts. It argues that one cannot understand changing concepts of architecture entirely in terms of the internal development of its problematic. The idea of art, and of the arts, and of architecture's place in the arts has changed drastically over the period. Understanding this historical variation of the concepts is not merely a methodological issue of the larger study; rather it can tell us something of why 20 th century architects were so interested in the baroque, and why the baroque has remained a point of conflict between architects and architectural historians. The architecture of the baroque in 17 th century Italy has had a particular, and productive uptake in modern times. Proponents of modern architecture, notably Sigfried Giedion and Bruno Zevi, used baroque buildings as exemplifications of qualities such as movement and spatial expression, which they sought in modern architecture. 1 The work of more recent scholars, including Joseph Connors and Christoph Thoenes, has, however, shown how anachronistic it is to understand 17 th century buildings in this way. 2 There was nothing that answered to the modern concept of space in the 17 th century, and nor can we easily assume that the word architecture has described a common task across time.
The Journal of Baroque Studies
When St John's conventual church was completed in the year 1577, 1 the appearance of the interior was significantly different to what one sees today [Figure 1]. In contrast with the exuberant embellishment it was simple and plain. The only possible accessories would have been a simple stone main altar with the mannerist style altarpiece depicting The Baptism of Christ by Perez d'Aleccio. 2 During recent conservation works, where the marble tiles were lifted, emerged the original stone steps that once led to the main altar at the back of the church. The significance of this discovery is the subject of this paper. Considering that most of the marble and gilded carvings took place in the seventeenth century it is evident that the presbytery had a very different arrangement.
Architecture and Music in the Baroque Period
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
The disciplines of architecture and music interact with each other throughout history. Works of architecture and music are influenced by the semantic and historic features of the period lived in. Composers and architects create their works taking advantage of the stylistic or conceptual data. In both of these disciplines ideas result in concrete products by means of different tools. Baroque era covers the period from 1580 to 1750. In contrast to the balanced and rational attitude of the Renaissance, during Baroque period dynamic, glitzy and dramatic elements have been used. Features of this period are evident in architecture and music as well as other branches of art. This research comprises the examination of the effects of Baroque features on musical and architectural pieces. The study addresses with examples the architectural highlights of the Baroque era in Italy, and the art of J.S. Bach's fugues.
Interstices, 2017
The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980 is aimed at exploring two projects, "the intellectual history of modern architecture and the history of architectural historiography." In doing so, the book "defines a role for the baroque in the history of architectural historiography and in the history of modern architectural culture." The historical understanding of baroque as a phenomenon of the sixteenth and seventeenth century is acknowledged in the book, but the central focus is on how the baroque has been created in our more recent past. Or, more accurately, its focus is to unpack how particular politics of our recent past have shaped how the baroque is understood from the 1880s to the 1980s. The book draws our attention to which stories of our recent past have flourished, and which have fallen by the wayside. Thus the book asks the reader to consider how the baroque has been shaped by privileging a particular understanding, author, text, and national location.
The Art and Architecture of Baroque Rome
Graduate seminar on the urban morphology of early modern Rome. Other themes of the course include the patronage of the papal courts and Counter-Reformation painting.