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Italian Baroque Sculpture Paperback - 1998

by Bruce Boucher

Italian baroque sculpture often has been criticized for portraying a sham world, distracting the spectator from its spiritual poverty by dazzling technical displays. Bruce Boucher offers a fresh view of this rich and varied subject, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the births of 17th-century artists Bernini and Algardi. 200 illustrations. 35 in color.


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Italian baroque sculpture has enjoyed a controversial reputation, much like that of its chief protagonist, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It has been damned for creating a sham world, distracting the spectator from its spiritual poverty by dazzling technical displays; it has also been condemned as an aberration in taste between the High Renaissance and neo-classicism. Bruce Boucher's text and illustrations offer a fresh view of this rich and varied subject, arguing that Italian baroque sculpture addressed serious issues about art and reality. Baroque sculpture was an art of allegory, one whose visual metaphors were as complex and as stimulating as any metaphysical poem. It was addressed as much to the imagination as to the eye and strove to present the irrational world of saints and mystics in a rational manner. Published to coincide with the four hundredth anniversary of the births of Bernini and Algardi, Italian Baroque Sculpture is the first serious reassessment in English of this major period in European art for more than a generation.

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The sculptural flowering of the Italian Baroque - the sensuous beauty of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne; the spectacular papal tombs in St. Peter's; dramatic altarpieces such as the mystical Ecstasy of St. Teresa; and Rome's dazzling fountains - boldly transcended the traditional limitations of artistic media. Often dismissed in the past for creating a sham world to distract the observer's attention with dazzling technical displays, the sculpture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy is here reassessed for the first time in more than a generation. Published to coincide with the fourth centenary of the births of Bernini and Algardi, the greatest of Baroque sculptors, Bruce Boucher's book provides an invaluable critical survey of Italian Baroque sculpture.

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  • Title Italian Baroque Sculpture
  • Author Bruce Boucher
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Thames & Hudson, United Kingdom
  • Date 1998-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780500203071 / 0500203075
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.91 x 0.56 in (21.08 x 15.01 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress subjects Sculpture, Italian, Sculpture, Baroque - Italy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97060251
  • Dewey Decimal Code 735
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