Baroque Europe (Buildings of Europe-Architecture Art Ebook)

Baroque Europe (Buildings of Europe)
B. T. Batsford Ltd. | 1962 | ISBN: N/A | English | 274 pages | PDF | 58 MB

The very word Baroque-at least in the sense which we attach to it-was unknown to the men who lived in the Baroque age. Barroco, a term for a misshapen pearl discarded on the seashore by Portuguese fishermen, had until the late nineteenth century when Baroque art was totally superannuated and despised only a localized pejorative meaning. Indeed there was no such recognized thing as Baroque art even one hundred years ago. Art historians simply acknowledged that there was a phase-and rather too long a one-of late Renaissance art, much to be deplored on account of its over-exuberant and decadent manifestations