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Autor:
Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term ‘Rococo'. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe. Extravag
Autor:
Jennifer D. Milam
The Rococo emerged in France around 1700 as a playful revolt against the grandeur of the Baroque and the solemnity of Classicism. It flourished during the reign of Louis XV and began to go out of fashion in the second half of the 18th century. During
Autor:
Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
En associant le mot rocaille, référence aux formes alambiquées des coquillages, à l'italien baroco, les Français donnèrent naissance au terme de « rococo ». Apparu au début du XVIIIe siècle, il s'étendit rapidement à l'ensemble de l'Europ
Autor:
Matthew M. Reeve
Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole shows that the Gothic style in architecture and the decorative arts and the tradition of medievalist research associated with Horace Walpole (1717–1797) and his circle cannot be unde
Autor:
Stephanie Porras
As a social phenomenon and a commonplace of internet culture, virality provides a critical vocabulary for addressing questions raised by the global mobility and reproduction of early modern artworks. This book uses the concept of virality to study ar
Autor:
Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, Stefan Hanß
In-Between Textiles is a decentred study of how textiles shaped, disrupted, and transformed subjectivities in the age of the first globalisation. The volume presents a radically cross-disciplinary approach that brings together world-leading anthropol
Autor:
Melissa Lo
In seventeenth-century northern Europe, as the Aristotelian foundations of scientia were rocked by observation, experiment, confessional strife, and political pressure, natural philosophers came to rely on the printed image to fortify their epistemol
Autor:
Martin Nixon
The catastrophic Sicilian earthquake of 1693 led to the rebuilding of over 60 towns in the island's south-west. The rebuilding extended into the eighteenth century and gave opportunities for the reassertion and the transformation of power relations.
Autor:
Bogdan Cornea
Baroque depictions of violence are often dismissed as ‘over the top'and ‘excessive'. Their material richness and exciting visual complexity, together with the visceral engagement they demand from beholders, are usually explained in literature as
Autor:
Rose Marie San Juan
Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel life itself through the membranes of a heart belonging to a man who had just been executed, a comment t