Baroque Visual Rhetoric

By Vernon Hyde Minor

Book Overview

Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor's Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combination of style and message and - equally importantly - the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.

Drawing on a breathtaking range of critical literature, from the German founders of art history as an academic discipline to Heidegger, Derrida, and de Man, Minor considers the issue through a series of Baroque masterpieces: Bernini's Baldacchino in St. Peter's Basilica, the statues in the church of San Giovanni in Laterano, Borromini's church of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, Baciccio's frescoes in the church of Il Ges , the paintings of Philippe de Champaigne, and the Corsini Chapel in San Giovanni in Laterano.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442648791
• ISBN13: 9781442648791
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher