Baroque Visual Rhetoric.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (285 pages)
- Toronto Italian Studies .
- Toronto Italian Studies .
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Critical Perspectives -- 3. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini and Inexpressibility -- 4. Death and Dying in St Peter's Basilica: Part 1 -- 5. Death and Dying in St Peter's Basilica: Part 2 -- 6. Eighteenth-Century Baroque: The Style That Did Not (Quite) Die -- 7. Narrative and Symbol in the Apostles Series, San Giovanni in Laterano -- 8. Fear and Trembling in Francesco Borromini's Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza -- 9. Baroque Conceits: Domenichino and Baciccio -- 10. Bernini and the Metaphor of the Fiery Angel -- 11. Blaise Pascal, Jansenists, Jesuits, and the Lettres Provinciales -- 12. The Corsini Chapel: Its Sense of Place and Time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Baroque Visual Rhetoricprobes the Baroque's combination of style and message and the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.