Baroque Ornament and Designs

by Jacques Stella

Book Overview

Baroque art and architecture -- extravagant in concept, exuberant in spirit, elaborate in detail -- flourished in seventeenth-century Europe, and through the ages has continued to stir us with its vitality and dynamism and its mood of barely suppressed passion. In the architecture of St. Peter's in Rome, St. Paul's in London, and Santa Maria della Salute in Venice as well as in the works of Michelangelo, Bernini, and Rubens, the Baroque spirit lives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486253783
• ISBN13: 9780486253787
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.2" x 10.9"