Baroque and Rococo : Art and Culture Book

	Preface	8
	Acknowledgments	10
1	Baroque & Rococo: Idea & Image	13
	Defining Periods in Art History	14
	Style, Rhetoric, Genres	16
	Style	16
	Rhetoric	17
	Genre	19
	Topics	20
	Baroque	20
	Concettismo	20
	Meraviglia	22
	Spectacle	24
	Quadratura, Quadro Riportato, & Di Sotto in Su	26
	Box: The Wolfflin Principles	28
	Rococo	31
	Good Taste	31
	The Place of Love: the Grove & the Bower	33
	The Pastoral/Arcadian	34
	The Place of Excitement (locus uberrimus)	35
	Tranquillity (otium)	37
	Conclusion	39
2	Setting the Stage: Social, Cultural, & Artistic Institutions	41
	Europe in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries	41
	Italy: the Papacy & the Church	43
	Pre-Baroque Italy	43
	Box: Trial before the Holy Tribunal, July 18, 1573	44
	The Council of Trent	46
	Rome	49
	Patronage	51
	Italian Academies	53
	Spain, France, & England: Monarchy	56
	Spain	56
	The Image of Philip IV	58
	France	59
	The Image of the King	60
	The French Royal Academy	62
	England	65
	The Royal Academy of London	67
	The Northern Netherlands: Capitalism	69
	The Dutch Art World	69
	Conclusion	72
3	The Baroque Church: Setting for Mystery, Propaganda, & Worship	75
	Box: Charles Borromeo's Instructions for Building & Decorating Churches, 1577	78
	Rome	79
	The Jesuit Church: Il Gesu	79
	The Rebuilding of St. Peter's	82
	Baroque Spaces	84
	The Church as Theater: Sant'Andrea al Quirinale	84
	The Church as Concetto: Sant'Ivo della Sapienza	87
	Ecclesiastical Architecture as Baroque Disegno: Santa Maria della Pace	91
	Northern Italy & Venice	93
	Baroque Architecture of the Marvelous: Chapel of the Holy Shroud, Turin	93
	The Church as Votive Offering: Santa Maria della Salute	94
	France	97
	The Church as Commemoration: Val-de-Grace	97
	The Reassertion of Roman Baroque: Church of the Invalides, Paris	100
	England	102
	The Rebuilding of London: St. Paul's Cathedral	102
	Austria and Germany	104
	Imperial Style: The Karlskirche, Vienna	105
	The Church as Pilgrimage Center: Die Wies, Bavaria	106
	Spain & the New World	110
	Late Baroque: Cathedral of Granada & Santiago de Compostela	110
	Baroque & Rococo in Central & South America	113
	Conclusion	117
4	Sacred Interiors: Papal Tombs, Altarpieces, & Ceiling Paintings	119
	The Papal Tomb	120
	Altars & Altarpieces	124
	Gothic & Renaissance Altarpieces	124
	Baroque & Rococo Altarpieces	126
	From Titian to Carracci	126
	Caravaggio	128
	Reni	128
	Bernini	131
	Vouet	132
	La Tour	134
	El Greco	134
	Murillo	136
	Deshays	139
	Rubens	138
	Tiepolo	139
	Villalpando	141
	Church Ceilings	141
	Sant'Andrea, Rome	142
	Sant'Ignazio, Rome	144
	Box: Jesuit Missions	146
	Santa Cecilia, Rome	148
	Church of the Invalides, Paris	149
	Birnau Pilgrimage Church, Austria	150
	Papal Palace Ceilings	153
	The Palazzo Barberini, Rome	153
	The Palazzo Altieri, Rome	155
	Conclusion	155
5	Visual Rhetoric: Styles in the Baroque & Rococo	157
	Rhetorical Contrasts in Italy	158
	Mannerism	158
	Bolognese Classicism	160
	Subversive Tenebrism	164
	Box: Violence & Gender in the Baroque	170
	Baroque as Spectacle	173
	The Barocchetto: The "Little Baroque" of the Eighteenth Century	178
	The Baroque in Flanders	180
	Rubens	181
	Van Dyck	184
	Baroque Rhetoric in France: Classicism & Tenebrism	186
	The Rococo in Eighteenth-Century France	190
	Watteau	191
	Boucher	193
	Fragonard	195
	The Northern Netherlands	199
	Rembrandt: Chiaroscuro & Mystery	199
	Hals, Leyster, Vermeer, & the Art of the "Uncontrived"	203
	Conclusion	207
6	The "Minor Arts": Portraits, Still Lifes, & Genre Painting	209
	Portraits	211
	Box: Intellectual & Scientific Currents of the Seventeenth Century	212
	Baroque Portraits: Images of Power	217
	De Champaigne	219
	Rubens	219
	Van Dyck	222
	Bernini	222
	Baciccio (Giovanni Battista Gaulli)	227
	Late Baroque & Rococo Portraits: The Cult of Sensibility	227
	Hals	229
	Boucher	230
	Vigee Le Brun	232
	Reynolds	233
	Gainsborough	235
	Self-Portraits	235
	Rembrandt	236
	Rubens	239
	Gentileschi	240
	Poussin	241
	Carriera	242
	Still Life	244
	Still Lifes in Southern Europe	245
	Dutch Still Lifes	247
	Still Lifes of the French Rococo	252
	Genre Painting	254
	Southern Europe: Velazquez & Ribera	254
	Box: Beyond Genre: Velazquez' Las Meninas	256
	France: Louis Le Nain	258
	The Dutch Republic: de Hooch, Steen, & Vermeer	259
	Rococo France: Chardin	262
	Conclusion	263
7	Landscapes & Views: Depictions of the Natural & Manmade World	265
	Landscapes	266
	Precursors of the Baroque Landscape	266
	The Classical Landscape in Baroque Italy	268
	Poussin	268
	Claude	270
	Rosa's Italian Landscape of the Sublime	273
	Rubens: Pride of Ownership	276
	Dutch Landscape: a Democratic Topography	278
	Jan van Goyen	279
	Ruisdael	280
	The Woodland, Landed Estate, & Classical Landscape in British Painting	281
	Gainsborough	282
	Wilson	284
	Box: The Pastoral	286
	Arcadia in Eighteenth-Century France	287
	Views	289
	Italian Views (I): Rome	290
	The Grand Tour	292
	Box: The Imaginary View: Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Prisons	294
	Italian Views (II): Venice	295
	Dutch Views	298
	Conclusion	301
8	Town & Country Planning: Rome, Amsterdam, & Versailles	303
	Rome	303
	Palaces	307
	The Palazzo Barberini	308
	The Corsini Palace	310
	Fountains	313
	The Moses Fountain	314
	The Fountain of the Four Rivers	315
	Amsterdam	319
	Canals, Houses & Civic Buildings	321
	Versailles: the French Royal Chateau	327
	Grounds & Facade	327
	Box: The Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon	328
	The Hall of Mirrors	333
9	Domestic Spaces: Interiors & Gardens	337
	Painting & Interior Design	339
	Dutch Baroque Interiors	339
	French Rococo Interiors	342
	Box: The Dissemination of Images	348
	Garden Design	350
	The Villa Borghese, Rome	350
	Vaux-le-Vicomte, near Paris	352
	Petworth Park, England	354
10	Epilogue: The Baroque & Rococo in Theory	357
	Some Aspects of Baroque Theory	357
	Guercino's Change of Style: A Case Study	358
	Theoretical Disputes in the Academies	362
	Roger de Piles & Rococo Theory	366
	Conclusion	369
	Chronology of the Baroque & Rococo 1600-1760	371
	Glossary	382
	Bibliography	384
	Picture Credits	389
	Index	391