ABSTRACT

This book focuses on key monuments of the Baroque style, which varies in different European contexts. It is intended to affirm the existence of individual genius, identifiable styles of art, and historical periods that produced them.

chapter Chapter One|13 pages

Introduction to the Baroque

chapter Chapter Two|21 pages

Baroque Architecture and Sculpture in Rome

chapter Chapter Three|18 pages

Baroque Painting in Rome

chapter Chapter Four|17 pages

Velázquez and the Court of Philip IV

chapter Chapter Five|22 pages

French Baroque

chapter Chapter Six|19 pages

Baroque Painting in Flanders and England

chapter Chapter Seven|21 pages

Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting I: Rembrandt

chapter Chapter Nine|18 pages

Late Baroque and Rococo