Transformations: Baroque and Rococo in the Age of Absolutism and the Church Triumphant

by Christopher Tadgell

Unprecedented in scope - like its companion volume on the High Renaissance, Mannerism - this sixth volume in the Architecture in Context series traces the development of architecture and decoration in the 17th and early 18th centuries - particularly the transformation of rationalist Classical ideals into the emotive, highly theatrical style known as Baroque and the further development away from architectonic principles to the free-ranging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138038954
• ISBN13: 9781138038950
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 968 Pages
• Weight: 4.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 7.1" x 8.2"