Civilization of Baroque Italy 1550-1650 (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.
Review: Rethinking the Baroque, ed. Helen Hills (Ashgate, 2011)
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A very brief account of the historiographical nature of 'the Baroque'. This was for an unrealised project. G David R. Marshall 2019.
This short account traces something of the relationship between baroque and art history from 19thC to present. Like illicit lovers, they found themselves in each other’s arms in nineteenth-century Germany. Baroque seduced the infant academic discipline; their coupling gave birth to ‘style’, and soon, as is often the case with lovers, they were shaped in each other’s image. Even when they later split up, they remained deeply marked by traces of that early encounter. Baroque might, then, be seen as the narcissistic imago of art history or even its Lacanian mirror stage. The discords in that relationship remain potentially productive for art history. Latin American baroque may open useful ways to think European baroque.
Baroque-Style in the Age of Magnificence 1620–1800
Baroque: Style in the Age of Magnificence is a groundbreaking addition to the study of a many-faceted stylistic phenomenon. It takes a broader view than has been traditional, demonstrating for the first time how the style engendered developments in art, design and the applied arts, not only throughout Europe but over a vast geographical range from Goa and the Philippines in the east to Central and South America in the west. The complexity and sophistication of the Baroque art of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries could be understood as appealing to the viewer's emotional, aesthetic and religious sensibilities. Taking examples from all media and genres, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the style, tracing its development from Rome, centre of papal and princely power. Carefully selected and rarely seen objects from public and private collections illustrate traditions of ornament, performance and visual art, while attractive feature spreads explore a variety of topics such as opera, fireworks and religious rituals, and investigate churches and palaces as showcases for the pomp and splendour of Baroque art. Published to accompany a major V&A and touring exhibition, stylishly designed, heavily illustrated and international in its outlook, Baroque: Style in the Age of Magnificence will prove an indispensable work of reference and a source of enlightenment about the nature and significance of an important phase of Western art.