The Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts

by Giancarlo Maiorino

Book Overview

This comparative and interdisciplinary study focuses on a cluster of epoch-making themes that emerged in the late sixteenth century. Michelangelo and Giordano Bruno are taken as the founding fathers of the Baroque, and we see that beyond the Alps their lessons were echoed in Montaigne, Cervantes, and the Counter-Reformation culture of the Mediterranean basin. Maiorino shows that the common denominator that links the origins of the Baroque to its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271027908
• ISBN13: 9780271027906
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"