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From 1600 to 1760, Baroque and Rococo artists brought a newfound energy, emotion, and elegance to European painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts. This profusely illustrated survey is the first to incorporate modern scholarship and examine the Baroque and Rococo eras contextually.

Vernon Hyde Minor explores the styles, institutions, cities, and genres that shaped this period's great artistic outpouring -- and illuminates the achievements of Bernini, Caravaggio, Fragonard, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velazquez, Vermeer, Watteau, and other notable artists. With unusually thorough coverage of women artists, town planning, and domestic interiors and gardening, Baroque Rococo brilliantly captures the swirling cultural currents of the time from Counter Reformation Rome to Louis XIV's Versailles to bourgeois Amsterdam.

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Preface	p. 8
Acknowledgments	p. 10
Baroque & Rococo: Idea & Image	p. 13
Defining Periods in Art History	p. 14
Style, Rhetoric, Genres	p. 16
Style	p. 16
Rhetoric	p. 17
Genre	p. 19
Topics	p. 20
Baroque	p. 20
Concettismo	p. 20
Meraviglia	p. 22
Spectacle	p. 24
Quadratura, Quadro Riportato, & Di Sotto in Su	p. 26
Box: The Wolfflin Principles	p. 28
Rococo	p. 31
Good Taste	p. 31
The Place of Love: the Grove & the Bower	p. 33
The Pastoral/Arcadian	p. 34
The Place of Excitement (locus uberrimus)	p. 35
Tranquillity (otium)	p. 37
Conclusion	p. 39
Setting the Stage: Social, Cultural, & Artistic Institutions	p. 41
Europe in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries	p. 41
Italy: the Papacy & the Church	p. 43
Pre-Baroque Italy	p. 43
Box: Trial before the Holy Tribunal, July 18, 1573	p. 44
The Council of Trent	p. 46
Rome	p. 49
Patronage	p. 51
Italian Academies	p. 53
Spain, France, & England: Monarchy	p. 56
Spain	p. 56
The Image of Philip IV	p. 58
France	p. 59
The Image of the King	p. 60
The French Royal Academy	p. 62
England	p. 65
The Royal Academy of London	p. 67
The Northern Netherlands: Capitalism	p. 69
The Dutch Art World	p. 69
Conclusion	p. 72
The Baroque Church: Setting for Mystery, Propaganda, & Worship	p. 75
Box: Charles Borromeo's Instructions for Building & Decorating Churches, 1577	p. 78
Rome	p. 79
The Jesuit Church: Il Gesu	p. 79
The Rebuilding of St. Peter's	p. 82
Baroque Spaces	p. 84
The Church as Theater: Sant'Andrea al Quirinale	p. 84
The Church as Concetto: Sant'Ivo della Sapienza	p. 87
Ecclesiastical Architecture as Baroque Disegno: Santa Maria della Pace	p. 91
Northern Italy & Venice	p. 93
Baroque Architecture of the Marvelous: Chapel of the Holy Shroud, Turin	p. 93
The Church as Votive Offering: Santa Maria della Salute	p. 94
France	p. 97
The Church as Commemoration: Val-de-Grace	p. 97
The Reassertion of Roman Baroque: Church of the Invalides, Paris	p. 100
England	p. 102
The Rebuilding of London: St. Paul's Cathedral	p. 102
Austria and Germany	p. 104
Imperial Style: The Karlskirche, Vienna	p. 105
The Church as Pilgrimage Center: Die Wies, Bavaria	p. 106
Spain & the New World	p. 110
Late Baroque: Cathedral of Granada & Santiago de Compostela	p. 110
Baroque & Rococo in Central & South America	p. 113
Conclusion	p. 117
Sacred Interiors: Papal Tombs, Altarpieces, & Ceiling Paintings	p. 119
The Papal Tomb	p. 120
Altars & Altarpieces	p. 124
Gothic & Renaissance Altarpieces	p. 124
Baroque & Rococo Altarpieces	p. 126
From Titian to Carracci	p. 126
Caravaggio	p. 128
Reni	p. 128
Bernini	p. 131
Vouet	p. 132
La Tour	p. 134
El Greco	p. 134
Murillo	p. 136
Deshays	p. 139
Rubens	p. 138
Tiepolo	p. 139
Villalpando	p. 141
Church Ceilings	p. 141
Sant'Andrea, Rome	p. 142
Sant'Ignazio, Rome	p. 144
Box: Jesuit Missions	p. 146
Santa Cecilia, Rome	p. 148
Church of the Invalides, Paris	p. 149
Birnau Pilgrimage Church, Austria	p. 150
Papal Palace Ceilings	p. 153
The Palazzo Barberini, Rome	p. 153
The Palazzo Altieri, Rome	p. 155
Conclusion	p. 155
Visual Rhetoric: Styles in the Baroque & Rococo	p. 157
Rhetorical Contrasts in Italy	p. 158
Mannerism	p. 158
Bolognese Classicism	p. 160
Subversive Tenebrism	p. 164
Box: Violence & Gender in the Baroque	p. 170
Baroque as Spectacle	p. 173
The Barocchetto: The "Little Baroque" of the Eighteenth Century	p. 178
The Baroque in Flanders	p. 180
Rubens	p. 181
Van Dyck	p. 184
Baroque Rhetoric in France: Classicism & Tenebrism	p. 186
The Rococo in Eighteenth-Century France	p. 190
Watteau	p. 191
Boucher	p. 193
Fragonard	p. 195
The Northern Netherlands	p. 199
Rembrandt: Chiaroscuro & Mystery	p. 199
Hals, Leyster, Vermeer, & the Art of the "Uncontrived"	p. 203
Conclusion	p. 207
The "Minor Arts": Portraits, Still Lifes, & Genre Painting	p. 209
Portraits	p. 211
Box: Intellectual & Scientific Currents of the Seventeenth Century	p. 212
Baroque Portraits: Images of Power	p. 217
De Champaigne	p. 219
Rubens	p. 219
Van Dyck	p. 222
Bernini	p. 222
Baciccio (Giovanni Battista Gaulli)	p. 227
Late Baroque & Rococo Portraits: The Cult of Sensibility	p. 227
Hals	p. 229
Boucher	p. 230
Vigee Le Brun	p. 232
Reynolds	p. 233
Gainsborough	p. 235
Self-Portraits	p. 235
Rembrandt	p. 236
Rubens	p. 239
Gentileschi	p. 240
Poussin	p. 241
Carriera	p. 242
Still Life	p. 244
Still Lifes in Southern Europe	p. 245
Dutch Still Lifes	p. 247
Still Lifes of the French Rococo	p. 252
Genre Painting	p. 254
Southern Europe: Velazquez & Ribera	p. 254
Box: Beyond Genre: Velazquez' Las Meninas	p. 256
France: Louis Le Nain	p. 258
The Dutch Republic: de Hooch, Steen, & Vermeer	p. 259
Rococo France: Chardin	p. 262
Conclusion	p. 263
Landscapes & Views: Depictions of the Natural & Manmade World	p. 265
Landscapes	p. 266
Precursors of the Baroque Landscape	p. 266
The Classical Landscape in Baroque Italy	p. 268
Poussin	p. 268
Claude	p. 270
Rosa's Italian Landscape of the Sublime	p. 273
Rubens: Pride of Ownership	p. 276
Dutch Landscape: a Democratic Topography	p. 278
Jan van Goyen	p. 279
Ruisdael	p. 280
The Woodland, Landed Estate, & Classical Landscape in British Painting	p. 281
Gainsborough	p. 282
Wilson	p. 284
Box: The Pastoral	p. 286
Arcadia in Eighteenth-Century France	p. 287
Views	p. 289
Italian Views (I): Rome	p. 290
The Grand Tour	p. 292
Box: The Imaginary View: Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Prisons	p. 294
Italian Views (II): Venice	p. 295
Dutch Views	p. 298
Conclusion	p. 301
Town & Country Planning: Rome, Amsterdam, & Versailles	p. 303
Rome	p. 303
Palaces	p. 307
The Palazzo Barberini	p. 308
The Corsini Palace	p. 310
Fountains	p. 313
The Moses Fountain	p. 314
The Fountain of the Four Rivers	p. 315
Amsterdam	p. 319
Canals, Houses & Civic Buildings	p. 321
Versailles: the French Royal Chateau	p. 327
Grounds & Facade	p. 327
Box: The Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon	p. 328
The Hall of Mirrors	p. 333
Domestic Spaces: Interiors & Gardens	p. 337
Painting & Interior Design	p. 339
Dutch Baroque Interiors	p. 339
French Rococo Interiors	p. 342
Box: The Dissemination of Images	p. 348
Garden Design	p. 350
The Villa Borghese, Rome	p. 350
Vaux-le-Vicomte, near Paris	p. 352
Petworth Park, England	p. 354
Epilogue: The Baroque & Rococo in Theory	p. 357
Some Aspects of Baroque Theory	p. 357
Guercino's Change of Style: A Case Study	p. 358
Theoretical Disputes in the Academies	p. 362
Roger de Piles & Rococo Theory	p. 366
Conclusion	p. 369
Chronology of the Baroque & Rococo 1600-1760	p. 371
Glossary	p. 382
Bibliography	p. 384
Picture Credits	p. 389
Index	p. 391
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Vernon Hyde Minor is professor of art history and humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder

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