 | Baroque Visual Rhetoric Subjects: Arts Baroque -- Italy; Arts Italian -- 17th century; Arts Italian -- 18th century; Aesthetics Modern -- 17th century; Aesthetics Modern -- 18th century; Art criticism -- History; 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 Rhetoricprobes 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 Baldacchinoin 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 Gesù, the paintings of Philippe de Champaigne, and the Corsini Chapel in San Giovanni in Laterano. MinorVernon Hyde: Vernon Hyde Minor is a professor emeritus in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado Boulder. |
