Key Monuments of the Baroque

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by Laurie Schneider Adams

Westview Press

Due/Published August 2001, 208 pages, paper

ISBN 0813334306

This book describes and analyzes in depth a number of the most important works of art (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the artists who created them in the Baroque style from about 1600 to 1750, with 109 illustrations." "The book covers the Mannerist precursors of Baroque; Baroque painting, sculpture, and architecture in Rome; Velazquez in Spain; French Baroque; Flemish Baroque; Dutch painting in the seventeenth century; and late Baroque and Rococo. The book includes boxed sections on important subjects related to the key monuments, a glossary, a bibliography of works cited, suggested readings, and an index. Among the artists included are Cellini, Veronese, Vignola, Bramante, Bernini, Borromini, Caravaggio, Gentileschi, Carracci, Velazquez, Poussin, Le Vau, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Ruisdael, Claesz, Vermeer, and Wren.