Italian baroque sculpture / Bruce Boucher.

Main entry:

Boucher, Bruce.

Title & Author:

Italian baroque sculpture / Bruce Boucher.

Publication:

New York : Thames and Hudson, [1998].
©1998.

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Series:

World of art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index.
In search of the Baroque -- The origins of Italian Baroque sculpture -- Portraiture -- Fountains and garden sculpture -- The art of dying well -- The Bel Composto -- Reliefs and sculptural Altarpieces -- Ephemeral decorartion and small works of art -- From late Baroque to Neoclassicism.

Summary:

The sculptural flowering of the Italian Baroque - the sensuous beauty of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne; the spectacular papal tombs in St. Peter's; dramatic altarpieces such as the mystical Ecstasy of St. Teresa; and Rome's dazzling fountains - boldly transcended the traditional limitations of artistic media. Often dismissed in the past for creating a sham world to distract the observer's attention with dazzling technical displays, the sculpture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy is here reassessed for the first time in more than a generation. Published to coincide with the fourth centenary of the births of Bernini and Algardi, the greatest of Baroque sculptors, Bruce Boucher's book provides an invaluable critical survey of Italian Baroque sculpture.

ISBN:

0500203075 (paperback)
9780500203071 (paperback)

Subject:

Sculpture, Italian.
Sculpture, Baroque Italy.
Sculpture italienne.
Sculpture baroque Italie.
Sculpture, Baroque.
Plastische kunst.
Barok.
Italy.

Added entries:

World of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 196711
Call No.: ID NB615.B64; ID:98-B1489
Status: Available

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